Michael Klein, VU University Amsterdam

 

like very much this idea of the Humane AI project because I think technology is never on its own, and especially this is not the case for AI technology, so its always happening in interaction with humans. Within Humane AI we are trying to see how we can study what is happening when people are using AI technology. That’s really relevant. I have heard a really nice summary today when somebody said that the US are doing AI for money, China is doing AI for control and we in Europe are doing AI for humanity. I think that’s very important. We want to achieve something with AI that is good for humanity.

My own research is about understanding human behaviour. There is a lot of knowledge about why people do what they do in psychology, sociology and we also have a lot of technical measures to work on that. I would like to have an integrated framework where we combine all the knowledge and technologies that we have to understand what people are doing and why, that’s my bluesky project for AI.