The 11th edition of the Threat Landscape of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) highlights the disruptive impacts of AI chatbots and AI-enabled manipulation of information. The findings of the 2023 Threat Landscape report of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) highlights need for vigilance ahead of the upcoming European elections in 2024. […]
Horizon Europe: Security of robust AI systems
Expected Outcome Projects’ results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes: Security-by-design concept and resilience to adversarial attacks; Inclusion of context awareness in machine learning in order to boost resiliency. Scope Proposals received under this topic will address the security of AI systems, in the line with the following considerations. […]
The European Commission recommends carrying out a risk assessment of 4 critical technology areas: advanced semiconductors, AI, quantum and biotechnologies
The Commission adopted a Recommendation on critical technology areas for the EU’s economic security, for further risk assessment with Member States. This Recommendation stems from the Joint Communication on a European Economic Security Strategy that put in place a comprehensive strategic approach to economic security in the EU. This Recommendation relates to the assessment of one of […]
EU and Republic of Korea Digital Partnership
The European Union and the Republic of Korea held the first Digital Partnership council in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The council was co-chaired by Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, and by Korean Minister for Science and ICT, Mr Lee Jong-Ho. On the occasion of the ministerial meeting, the EU and the Republic of […]
Postdoc position in AI-based management of energy systems in Canada
One postdoc position is currently available at Prof. Yankai Cao’s lab (https://optimal.chbe.ubc.ca/) at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. For this position, the admitted candidate will also be jointly advised by Prof. Qiugang (Jay) Lu (https://sites.google.com/view/scalab) at Texas Tech University, USA. The successful candidate is expected to develop […]
EU is one step closer to first Artificial Intelligence rules
To ensure a human-centric and ethical development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Europe, MEPs endorsed new transparency and risk-management rules for AI systems. On Thursday, the Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee adopted a draft negotiating mandate on the first ever rules for Artificial Intelligence with 84 votes in favour, 7 against and […]
Mind the Gap in Standardisation of Cybersecurity for Artificial Intelligence
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) publishes an assessment of standards for the cybersecurity of AI and issues recommendations to support the implementation of upcoming EU policies on Artificial Intelligence (AI). What is Artificial Intelligence? The draft AI Act provides a definition of an AI system as “software developed with one or more (…) techniques (…) […]
How do you know if a text is written by an AI or a person?
A new study claims that training can help distinguish text produced by artificial intelligence (AI) from text written by humans. Artificial intelligence technology tools like ChatGPT are making headlines. From writing poetry in the style of 16th century England to writing scientific research papers, chatbots haven’t gone away. In fact, these relatively good agents would […]
Why is the new AI tool ChatGPT causing so much chaos?
Ever since ChatGPT was released on 30 November 2022, it has shown its potential to revolutionise how we work and play. The most impressive chatbot to date produces human-like text that is being put to all kinds of questionable uses. Let’s start with education. ChatGPT recently passed law and business exams from two universities in […]