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The workshop entitled “Design for Values in AI for Medicine and Healthcare” has been hosted in Delft on November 25th, 2022 as the result of a collaboration between the Delft Digital Ethics Center and the World Health Organization.

The Council of Ministers last week approved the formation of the Analytics Advisory Committee. This committee will advise the Tax Administration, the Customs Administration, the Benefits Agency and the Ministry of Finance on how to deal with risk models and algorithms. The advisory committee is tasked with considering current analytics issues within the services, both on request and on its own initiative. Jeroen van den Hoven, professor of Ethics and Technology, has been appointed a member of the committee.

Delft AI and ethics researchers lead academic forum of REAIM conference 15 and 16 February.

Coordinated by TU Delft Digital Ethics Centre, the REAIM Academic Forum will bring together scholars and experts from various disciplines to discuss relevant legal, ethical, philosophical and technical dilemmas and opportunities in the area of responsible development and use of military AI.

How can we ensure that the fundamental values which we consider important in the Netherlands and Europe, such as privacy, transparency and democracy, are safeguarded in a digital society? How can we make a truly positive contribution to society using AI? A conversation between Geert-Jan Houben, pro-vice rector AI, Data and Digitalisation and leader of the AI Initiative, and Professor Jeroen van den Hoven (TPM), leader of the Digital Ethics Centre. "For twenty years already we in Delft have been taking the lead in the field of combining ethics and engineering. "You want that your innovation contributes to the type of society we want to live in."