{"id":377,"date":"2018-10-16T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2018-10-16T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:02:02","slug":"policy-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/2018\/10\/16\/policy-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced a new initiative to create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cccblog.org\/2018\/09\/20\/a-roadmap-for-artificial-intelligence\/?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=cccblog\">Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence<\/a>. SIGAI\u2019s Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and President-Elect of AAAI) will work with Bart Selman (Cornell University) to lead the effort. The initiative will support the U.S. Administrations\u2019 efforts in this area and involve academic and industrial researchers to help map a course for needed research in AI. They will hold a series of workshops in 2018 and 2019 to produce the Roadmap by Spring of 2019.\u00a0The Computing Research Association (CRA) has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades <a href=\"https:\/\/cra.org\/govaffairs\/blog\/\">https:\/\/cra.org\/govaffairs\/blog\/<\/a> The CRA Government Affairs program has enhanced its efforts to help the members of the computing research community contribute to the public debate knowledgeably and effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Felten, Princeton Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/12\/felten-confirmed-member-us-privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board\">confirmed<\/a> by the U.S. Senate to be a member of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a bipartisan agency within the executive branch. He will serve as a part-time member of the board while continuing his teaching and research at Princeton. The five-person board is charged with evaluating and advising on executive branch anti-terrorism measures with respect to privacy and civil liberties. \u201cIt is a very important issue,\u201d Felten said. \u201cFederal agencies, in the course of doing national security work, have access to a lot of data about people and they do intercept data. It\u2019s important to make sure they are doing those things in the way they should and not overstepping.\u201d Felten added that the board has the authority to review programs that require secrecy. \u201cThe public has limited visibility into some of these programs,\u201d Felten said. \u201cThe board\u2019s job is to look out for the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On October 24, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine <em>Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence<\/em> will host a workshop in Washington, DC that will explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to foster a balance of safety and autonomy for older adults and people with disabilities who strive to live as independently as possible\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalacademies.org\/hmd\/Activities\/Aging\/AgingDisabilityForum\/2018-OCT-24.aspx\">http:\/\/nationalacademies.org\/hmd\/Activities\/Aging\/AgingDisabilityForum\/2018-OCT-24.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight\/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G\">Reuters<\/a>, Amazon scrapped an AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women in automated employment screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced a new initiative to create a Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence. SIGAI\u2019s Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and President-Elect of AAAI) will work with Bart Selman (Cornell University) to lead the effort. The initiative will support the U.S. Administrations\u2019 efforts in this area and involve academic and industrial researchers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/2018\/10\/16\/policy-in-the-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Policy in the News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}