21 December 2021
The Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AI Forum) thanks the Governance and Administration Committee for the opportunity to submit on the Data and Statistics Bill. The AI Forum NZ would be happy to speak to the Select committee about our submission.
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20 October 2021
The State of Artificial Intelligence in New Zealand Report
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Given the increasing impact of AI on human lives, policymakers are asking an important question: How to ensure that AI systems currently deployed are effectively compliant with existing regulation? To answer that question, let us wind the clock back a few years when AI technologies started to es
May 4, 2021
New Zealand has an opportunity to create AI that not only solves big problems at home, but that can also be seen as technology that is good for the world, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. Commerce and consumer affairs minister David Clark will be opening the Aotearo
May 3, 2021
The covid pandemic has shown all New Zealanders just how important AI is to health, wellbeing and the economy but there is a long way to go, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. This will be central to discussions at the Aotearoa AI summit in Auckland on May 12, he says. “Aotearoa sho
April 30, 2021
I can’t be more excited that we are just two weeks away from the Aotearoa AI Summit and with no current community cases of COVID-19 so we can meet in person! Check out the programme and the impressive speaker line-up here. &n
April 29, 2021
Ahead of the industry engagement roundtables for the National AI Strategy during the Aotearoa AI Summit on 12 May in Auckland, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) have provided this summary, outlining the need for a strategy and the proposed cornerstones. What are we doing
April 29, 2021
Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center have singled out 32 sets of principles for the responsible use of AI, which they have mapped to eight common themes. The work of applying such principles to the day-to-day world of engineers, practitioners, and, perhaps most importantly, oft
April 19, 2021
Congratulations Team New Zealand on winning the America’s Cup! A fantastic win for New Zealand and equally a win for AI! Augmenting AI with human brilliance is exactly the balance we should be striving for and it is perfectly demonstrated by the team’s experience and competitive edge gained dur
March 23, 2021
Alistair KnottDept of Computer Science, University of Otago New Zealanders like to think of their country as an innovator in public policy. New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote in 1893, the first Western country to go nuclear-free in 1987, and among the first countries to foc
March 22, 2021
How should government and society come together to address the challenge of regulating artificial intelligence? What approaches and tools will promote innovation, protect society from harm and build public trust in AI? Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key driver of the Fourth Industrial Rev
March 19, 2021