Panel: Ada Lovelace Institute Chair Wendy Hall Wendy Hall; the Hon. Bernice Donald of the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; Harvard Prof. Latanya Sweeney; Northeastern's Ricardo Baeza-Yates Ricardo Baeza-Yates; moderator Jeanna Matthews also @[email protected]. bit.ly/SeeTheirBiosHe… bit.ly/SeeMarchMember…

.ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee proudly co-presents (w/Information Technology and Innovation Foundation & Online News Association) the first D3 Conference on June 2, featuring Turing laureate vinton g cerf and Deborah G. Johnson bit.ly/DGJUVA, co-author of "What to Do About Deepfakes" (CACM, 3/21). Don't miss it! bit.ly/D3register0602…

Congratulations to EuropeTPC Chair and bit.ly/ACMStarChrisHa…, recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award. For more on his long, deep, broad and impactful service to the Association and the profession, please see bit.ly/ACMServiceAwar….

Congratulations to EuropeTPC's Prof. Andrew McGettrick, winner of the 2020 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for his "scholarship and tireless volunteer work and contributions"! Andrew also received ACM's 2018 Presidential Award. More at bit.ly/ACMServiceAwar….

Citing "a fabulous job in getting the TPC started," Yannis Ioannidis Gabriele Kotsis praised inaugural Chair Lorraine Kisselburgh, PhD and tapped ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee Chair Jim Hendler to helm the Council and former US Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein 🇨🇿 (that's a Czech not a check) Epstein to succeed him. Congrats to all!

BREAKING: EuropeTPC urges European Commission to revise its draft #ArtificialIntelligence Regulation to: better protect public health, safety, & privacy + leverage universal Informatics education to close "skills gap" w/ a diverse, AI-literate workforce. See bit.ly/AIregComments

.EuropeTPC has submitted Comments to the European Commission backing bit.ly/DigPrinciples on: robust, equitable net access; user privacy; e-gov and e-health services; online child protection; climate action; digital literacy; universal Informatics ed; and ethical algorithm design.

Congratulations to lead author Barn Knowles and Europe TOC’s Climate Change Working Group!

The global Technology Policy Council ACM Public Policy and its EuropeTPC and ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee tech policy committees proudly champion #DataPrivacyWeek 2022. For 25+ years ACM has forged benchmark #privacy principles (tinyurl.com/tsxmyty) to help all National Cybersecurity Alliance (bit.ly/2U0AIp7).

Just out! New bit.ly/ACMTechBrief on #FacialRecognition says its "fundamental limitations" create "profound #privacy and ethical challenges," system bias is "pervasive and profound," and FR is "insufficiently trustworthy" to replace human ID. Online at bit.ly/3M8NzOO

Catch ACM Technology Policy Council Chair Jim Hendler's thoughts in "Why Does an AI Faculty Shortage Exist? It’s Complicated," just out in Inside Higher Ed today. bit.ly/3ocnhAx

#Voter confidence and #election accuracy will be critical on #ElectionDay in the US and abroad. Computer-aided confirmation of vote tallies can help assure both. Read all about it in bit.ly/ACMTechBrief #5 on "risk-limiting audits," out today. bit.ly/RLAsWork!

#AI is everywhere today, outpacing policies globally to govern its use in all aspects of life. Today’s ACM global Tech Policy Council Statement on Responsible Algorithmic Systems offers nine keys to fair, accurate, and positive algorithmic decision-making. bit.ly/ACMAIPrinciples

Don't miss ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee member Dr. Dr. Lance Eliot's great piece in Forbes all about our new, updated bit.ly/ACMAIPrinciples and register for Thursday's bit.ly/FairAIHotTopic webinar about them! #ArtificiaIIntelligence #AIethics #selfdriving #AI #autonomousvehicles #Algorithms #policy

💐Meet the 2022 ACM Fellows! 57 of the ACM members have been selected for their wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in the #computing field. Please join us in congratulating these new inductees! Learn more about their achievements here: bit.ly/3CXulZz #ACMFellows

Much better to get it right from the beginning, says ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee’s #AI & #Algorithms Subcommittee Chair Jeanna Matthews also @[email protected] in this new InformationWeek piece on emerging bit.ly/TekEthics, also with a great shout out to our Nov. '22 bit.ly/ACMAIPrinciples. #AIethics Pam Baker

"Perfectly safe #algorithm[ic] systems are not possible [but] safer systems are" and must be shaped by policymakers worldwide now, says ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee's Ben Shneiderman (Ben Shneiderman) in the latest ACM TechBrief, out today. Find the Brief and more at bit.ly/safersystems #AI #policy

ACM's global Technology Policy Council, EuropeTPC, and ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee again proudly champion 2023 @DataPrivacyWeek and Data Privacy Day. For 25+ years ACM has forged benchmark #privacy principles (tinyurl.com/tsxmyty) to help all National Cybersecurity Alliance (bit.ly/2U0AIp7). #StaySafe

Don't trust AI? You're not alone, says ACM's latest TechBrief: "Trusted AI." Such trust is vital, but engineers and proposed regs may be on the wrong track to building and gauging it. What to do? Read the Brief, of course! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

6 yrs since #GDPR in full effect. Broad US privacy bill mired in Congress & we still "face unprecedented challenges to protecting information privacy" per Association for Computing Machinery's new TechBrief #11 by Micah Altman, Aloni Cohen, and Kobbi Nissim. Check it now! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…