AI Lab Lunch: HIPPO Lab & AI DeMoS Lab

During this AI Lab Lunch the HIPPO Lab and the AI DeMoS Lab will present themselves and their latest developments.

(This event will be held in English)

The HIPPO Lab is all about AI for fair, efficient, and interpretable policy analysis. To make a real impact, AI techniques must consider all stakeholders, and that includes minimizing conflict and protecting vulnerable groups. This is why the HIPPO Lab is developing next generation, nature-inspired and hyper-heuristic optimisation methods – the methods that can capture conflicts across multiple sectors, regions and generations. They use AI-based decision support for addressing complex real-world problems such as climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The AI DeMoS Lab focuses on developing AI for democracy. Two questions are key: for this lab: how does AI facilitate our practice of democracy and the way we understand it; and how can we facilitate the responsible design and use of AI systems for a meaningful democratic engagement? The AI DeMoS Lab contributes to the development of multimodal AI systems that foster deliberation and critical engagement by citizens. This will enable people to take informed decisions under the conditions of the very same deep uncertainty that these AI developments bring forth.