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sans-serif;">The <b class="">EurAI</b>’s (<a
href="http://www.eurai.org/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">www.eurai.org</a>) <b class="">18th
Advanced Course on AI (ACAI)</b> will take place in Berlin from
<b>11-15 October 2021</b> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height:
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sans-serif;"><u class="">The theme of ACAI-2021 is </u><b class="">“Human-centred
AI” </b></p>
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sans-serif;"><u class="">Venue</u>: Berlin, Germany (with online
broadcasting)</p>
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sans-serif;">website: <a
href="https://www.humane-ai.eu/event/acai2021/" style="color:
rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.humane-ai.eu/event/acai2021/</a></p>
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15.399999618530273px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;">twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/acai2021" style="color: rgb(149, 79,
114);" moz-do-not-send="true">https://twitter.com/acai2021</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height:
15.399999618530273px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;">ACAI provides a wide range of state-of-the-art
courses given by some of the most prominent researchers in the
area.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height:
15.399999618530273px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;">The notion of “Human Centric AI” is dominating the
public AI debate in Europe and elsewhere. It postulates a vision
of AI beneficial to humans on both individual and social level
that is characterized by a focus on supporting and empowering
humans as well as incorporating “by design” adherence to
appropriate ethical standards and values such as privacy
protection, autonomy (human in control), and non-discrimination.
Stated this way (which is how it mostly appears in the political
debate) it may seem more like a broad, vague wish list than a
tangible scientific/technological concept. Yet, at a second
glance, it turns out that it is closely connected to some of the
most fundamental challenges of AI which are the core of ACAI2021
program</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height:
15.399999618530273px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;">The program is packed with diverse activities,
including tutorials (at basic and advanced level), keynotes,
panels, student presentations, and more.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height:
15.399999618530273px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;">Confirmed keynote speakers include Yoshua Bengio
(Turing Prize Winner) and Ben Schneidermann and the winner of
EURAI’s dissertation award 2021.</p>
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sans-serif;"><b>Call for tutorials:</b> ACAI 2021 invites
proposals for tutorials. Deadline for proposals is 15 June 2021.
For more information and submission, please see <a
href="https://form.jotform.com/211240960017343" style="color:
rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://form.jotform.com/211240960017343</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height:
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sans-serif;">ACAI-2021is co-organized by: </p>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol;" class=""></span>The
European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) - <a
href="http://www.eurai.org/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">www.eurai.org</a> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol;" class=""></span>The
HumaneAI-net project - <a href="http://www.humane-ai.eu"
style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">www.humane-ai.eu</a></li>
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