Where: Villaggio Marco Polo, Santa Domenica, Ricadi (VV), Italy
When: 23rd – 29th June 2024
The third edition of the “AI & Society Summer School”, organized by the Italian National PHD program in Artificial Intelligence, PhD-AI.it will take place near Tropea, in Calabria, Italy. The Summer School is dedicated to the PhD students of the “AI & Society” branch of PhD-AI.it, and open to PhD students of the other branches. Six thrilling days of lectures, panel, poster sessions and proactive project work, to advance the frontier of AI research together with internationally renown scientists. And plenty of social activities to mix up and build the community of next-generation AI researchers, innovators and professionals.
Partners
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| Italian National PhD in Artificial Intelligence |
University of Pisa | Explanation of AI Decision Making ERC Advanced Grants 2018 n. 834756 |
European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence H2020-ICT-2019-3 n. 952026 |
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| NextGeneration EU, MUR, ItaliaDomani, SoBigData.it PNRR, CNR | |||
Program
| Sunday 23/06 | |
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| 19:30 – 21:00 | Welcome Aperitif |
| Monday 24/06 | |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa), PhD-AI.it coordinator Vincenzo Ambriola (University of Pisa), Computer Science Department Director |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Ethics and AI Jeroen van den Hoven (Delft University of Technology) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Ethics and AI Jeroen van den Hoven (Delft University of Technology) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Project work |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Project work |
| Tuesday 25/06 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Exploring the Artificial Intelligence ACT Carlo Casonato (University of Trento) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Exploring the Artificial Intelligence ACT Carlo Casonato (University of Trento) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Intervista impossibile ad Artemisia Gentileschi Filosofia interroga Arte – Drammaturgia sfida IA |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Project work |
| 18:00 – 21:00 | Social Tour on boat to Capo Vaticano, visiting the coves, Aperitif aboard, snorkeling equipment available, by Davideo Beach Meeting point: Baia di Riaci |
| Wednesday 26/06 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Responsible AI Riccardo Guidotti (University of Pisa) Anna Monreale (University of Pisa) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Responsible AI Riccardo Guidotti (University of Pisa) Anna Monreale (University of Pisa) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Project work |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Project work |
| 20:30 – 22:00 | Social Dinner (TBA) at Ristorante Il Convivio, via Boiano 10, Tropea (VV), Italy Transportation: TBA Meeting point: TBA |
| Thursday 27/06 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Responsible Social Media analysis: recommender algorithms, harmful content classifiers, and AI-generated content detection Alistair Knott (University of Otago) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Responsible Social Media analysis: recommender algorithms, harmful content classifiers, and AI-generated content detection Alistair Knott (University of Otago) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Project work |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Project work |
| Friday 28/06 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Responsible Generative AI Gizem Gezici (Scuola Normale Superiore) Fosca Giannotti (Scuola Normale Superiore) Giovanni Mauro (University of Pisa) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Responsible Generative AI Gizem Gezici (Scuola Normale Superiore) Fosca Giannotti (Scuola Normale Superiore) Giovanni Mauro (University of Pisa) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Project work |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Project work |
| Saturday 29/06 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Project work: presentations and evaluation |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Project work: presentations and evaluation |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Awards Ceremony |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
Lectures
The lectures will take place during the morning from 09:00 to 12:30 (from Monday to Friday). They will cover 20 hours in total.
Poster Session
Each Ph.D. student will present his/her research activity/project with a poster, in prospect of the thesis proposal.
Each day (13:30 – 14:30 from Monday to Friday) a group of about 12-13 students will present their research project (we will communicate the assigned to each day).
Project Work
From Monday to Friday (14:30 – 16:30) each group will work to elaborate a research project proposal on a specific topic regarding Artificial Intelligence, broadly related to the AI&Society area and including aspects of Responsible AI.
Each proposal should be prepared by taking into consideration the following guidelines:
- Objectives and State-of-the-art: Specify the proposal objectives in the context of the state of the art in the research field. It should be clear how and why the proposed work is important for the field.
- Ambition and research challenge: Specify any particularly challenging or unconventional aspects of the proposal, including multidisciplinary aspects and the possible ambitions of the proposed work that will advance the state of the art.
- Proposed methodology: Describe the proposed methodology including any intermediate goals. Explain and justify the methodology in relation to the state of the art, and particularly novel or unconventional aspects addressing the ‘high-risk/high-gain’ balance. Highlight methods and data will be used in order to reach the proposed objectives.
- Case studies: Describe and discuss possible case studies and application scenarios that could be useful for demonstrating the potential of the proposed project.
- Impact on science, technology and society: Discuss what impact proposed work will have if successful, such as how it may open up new horizons or opportunities for science, technology, economy, social life, and industry.
The topic could be chosen by each group among the ones suggested by the Organization Committee (see next section), or proposed directly by the group.
AI & Society topics
- Social AI for smart-cities
- AI Challenges in the Social Media World
- AI impact on Education, Health and Labour
- Human-in-the-loop in AI
- AI for Cultural Heritage
- Explainable AI for synergistic Human-AI collaboration
- Neuro-symbolic machine learning, integration of Learning and Reasoning
- Lifelong (continual, incremental) Learning for Complex Data
- Human-AI Socio-technical Complex Systems
- Decentralized, Federated, Cooperative Learning
- Co-design methodologies for Trustworthiness-by-design
Organization
The PhD students have to form 8 groups.
The groups and the project work proposal topics should be defined in advance, before the beginning of the Summer School week, in order to allow the Ph.D. students to organize in time and work actively on the project during the Summer School week.
Given the geographical distance among the Ph.D. students current different locations, it will be possible for them to use the virtual space of the AI-Colloquium (on Microsoft Teams) to facilitate communication and coordination between the groups. We have already created 8 channels (one for each group) that Ph.D. students can use for confronting and interacting remotely.
Objectives
The objective of the research Project Work afternoon activity is to realize a final presentation that will be evaluated by an evaluation Panel.
Presentation
The presentation will be carried out during the Saturday morning (29th June 2024) from 09:00 to 12:30. Each group will have 15 minutes to present their own work.
Each group has to prepare some slides for a presentation of 15 minutes.
The group can select only one member who will present the project or can decide for a presentation with multiple speakers.
Project Evaluation Panel
- Fosca Giannotti (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa)
- Giuseppe Prencipe (University of Pisa)
- Jeroen van den Hoven (Delft University of Technology)
For the evaluation the panel will take into account:
- novelty of ideas
- motivation of the proposal
- multidisciplinary vision of the project
- proposal feasibility
Organizing Committee
- Anna Monreale (University of Pisa)
- Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa)
- Giuseppe Prencipe (University of Pisa)
Organizing Committee
- Simone Farinella (University of Pisa)
- Rosaria Mongini (University of Pisa)
- Giacomo Petrini (Consorzio Quinn)
- Vittorio Romano (ISTI-CNR)
- Alessia Sebastiano (Consorzio Quinn)