[agents] Call for Submissions: ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies!

[Nicholas Mattei]

Call for Submissions: ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the Responsible
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies!

Do you have an opinion on the responsible use of AI technologies?

Do you want to win one of several $500 cash prizes?

Do you want to talk one-on-one (via skype) to one of the following AI
researchers:

 * Murray Campbell (Senior Manager, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

 * Eric Horvitz (Managing Director, Microsoft Research)

 * Peter Norvig (Director of Research, Google)

 * Stuart Russell (Professor, University of California at Berkeley) or

 * Michael Wooldridge (Head of the CS Department, University of Oxford)?

Read on!

We are happy to announce the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the
Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies.

An increasing number of AI technologies now affect our lives (or soon
will), from intelligent assistants to self-driving cars. As a result, AI
technologies are often in the news and a number of organizations (including
the U.S. government) are trying  to ensure that AI technologies are being
used for the maximum benefit of society. As with all potentially
transformative technologies (such as the automobile and the transistor),
there is some uncertainty about exactly how the future will look like and
how it should best be shaped to harness the power of AI technologies while
avoiding any drawbacks or misuses. ACM SIGAI is in a unique position to
shape the conversation around these issues.

ACM SIGAI is interested in obtaining input from students worldwide to help
shape this debate. We therefore invite all student members to enter an
essay in the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest, to be published in the ACM
SIGAI newsletter “AI Matters,” answering the following questions while
providing supporting evidence:

What do you see as the 1-2 most pressing ethical, social or regulatory
issues with respect to AI technologies? What position or steps can
governments, industries or organizations (including ACM SIGAI) take to
address these issues or shape the discussions on them?

The ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest is open to all ACM SIGAI student
members at the time of submission. (If you are a student but not an ACM
SIGAI member, you can join ACM SIGAI before submission for just USD 11,
even if you are not an ACM member.) The deadline for submissions is March
1, 2017.

Please find all details in the ACM SIGAI AI Matters blog
<https://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/2016/12/04/essaycontest/> (
https://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/2016/12/04/essaycontest/).

Please also help us out by distributing this email to students who might be
interested in participating.


Thanks


--Nick

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Nicholas Mattei
Research Staff Member | Cognitive Computing
*IBM T.J. Watson Research Center*
1101 Kitchawan Road, Office 30-110, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
E: n.mattei at ibm.com | T: +1 914 945 3305