On Wednesday 10th October 2018, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the subcommittee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament will be holding a SEDE Public Hearing on “Artificial Intelligence and Its Future Impact on Security”. In recent years, artificial intelligence has become more and more ubiquitous in the discussion that surrounds the future of security and events like this are important for framing the discussion.
At this event Tim Sweijs, the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, will be speaking alongside Wendy Anderson, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security, on the first panel entitled “the impact of AI on the future of defence” followed by questions and answers from the audience. Tim will draw reference to the HCSS reports “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Defense” and “Playing To Your Strengths: A Different Perspective on Future Capabilities for the Royal Netherlands Army“, wherein there is a dedicated section to AI and the role it will play for the Royal Netherlands Army in the coming years.
On the second panel, “regulating AI in the area of defence”, Allan Dafoe, Director of the Governance of AI Program at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford will be joined by Marcel Dickow, Head of International Security Research Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Again, this panel will be followed by questions and answers from the audience. This SEDE Public Hearing will be opened and closed by Anna Fotyga, the Chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
This event will be livestreamed on Wednesday 10th October at 9:00am, you can watch it here.
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