Nordic municipalities’ work with artificial intelligence

Nordic municipalities’ work with artificial intelligence
Author: Andreasson, Ulf
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9289364432

Municipalities in the Nordic regions are working to adopt artificial intelligence. Chat bots answer questions from citizens, algorithms can predict leaks in the water and sewage network, and tests are being conducted to determine how the technology can advise and support the municipalities’ case officers. This report describes how selected municipalities in the Nordic region are working with artificial intelligence. It discusses how the adoption of the technology may affect trust in the Nordic region, both in terms of the population’s trust in the public administration and social trust. The report makes recommendations for how the municipalities in the Nordic region can work together on artificial intelligence.

Nordic cooperation on data to boost the development of solutions with artificial intelligence Responsible organisation

Nordic cooperation on data to boost the development of solutions with artificial intelligence Responsible organisation
Author: Nordic Council of Ministers Secretariat
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2020-08-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9289366745

Available online: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-6013 Based on an assessment of different government owned datasets in the Nordic countries, this report provides recommendations of how to overcome barriers for more efficient data sharing and use of data. This report constitutes a first step in the identification of government owned datasets across the Nordics that has artificial intelligence potential.

Governmental Automated Decision-Making and Human Rights

Governmental Automated Decision-Making and Human Rights
Author: Stefan Schäferling
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2024-01-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3031481259

With the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence, governments are integrating AI technologies into administrative and even judicial decision-making, aiding and in some cases even replacing human decision-makers. Predictive policing, automated benefits administration, and automated risk assessment in criminal sentencing are but a few prominent examples of a general trend. While the turn towards governmental automated decision-making promises to reduce the impact of human biases and produce efficiency gains, reducing the human element in governmental decision-making also entails significant risks. This book analyses these risks through a comparative constitutional law and human rights lens, examining US law, German law, and international human rights law. It also highlights the structural challenges that automation poses for legal systems built on the assumption of exclusively human decision-making. Special attention is paid to the question whether existing law can adequately address the lack of transparency in governmental automated decision-making, its discriminatory processes and outcomes, as well as its fundamental challenge to human agency. Building on that analysis, it proposes a path towards securing the values of human dignity and agency at the heart of democratic societies and the rule of law in an increasingly automated world. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars focusing on the evolving relationship of law and technology as well as human rights scholars. Further, it represents a valuable contribution to the debate on the regulation of artificial intelligence and the role human rights can play in that process.

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence
Author: Christopher Grant Kirwan
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0128170247

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence offers a comprehensive view of how cities are evolving as smart ecosystems through the convergence of technologies incorporating machine learning and neural network capabilities, geospatial intelligence, data analytics and visualization, sensors, and smart connected objects. These recent advances in AI move us closer to developing urban operating systems that simulate human, machine, and environmental patterns from transportation infrastructure to communication networks. Exploring cities as real-time, living, dynamic systems, and providing tools and formats including generative design and living lab models that support cities to become self-regulating, this book provides readers with a conceptual and practical knowledge base to grasp and apply the key principles required in the planning, design, and operations of smart cities. Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence brings a multidisciplinary, integrated approach, examining how the digital and physical worlds are converging, and how a new combination of human and machine intelligence is transforming the experience of the urban environment. It presents a fresh holistic understanding of smart cities through an interconnected stream of theory, planning and design methodologies, system architecture, and the application of smart city functions, with the ultimate purpose of making cities more liveable, sustainable, and self-sufficient. Explores concepts in smart city design and development and the transformation of cities through the convergence of human, machine, and natural systems enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) Includes numerous diagrams to illustrate and explain complex smart city systems and solutions Features diverse smart city examples and initiatives from around the globe

Tenth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Tenth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Author: A. Holst
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008-05-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1607503352

The Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence continues a tradition of being one of the most important regional AI conferences in Europe for ten years now. The topics of this year’s contributions have a broad range, from machine learning, knowledge representation, robotics, planning and scheduling, natural language, computer vision, search algorithms, industrial applications, to philosophical foundations. These contributions exemplify the diversity of research in artificial intelligence today and confirm the achievement and magnitude of 25 years AI research in Scandinavia. In this tenth edition there will be an overview of the past, present and future of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, attention will be paid to the industrial aspects of artificial intelligence and the impressions from Swedish AI through the years. Other topics discussed are biosurveillance and an elaboration on probalistic modelling and learning in a relational world.

Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain

Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain
Author: Lejf Moos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319251066

This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehensive restructuring and reconceptualisation at the hands of national governments influenced by transnational agencies. Our analyses of the superintendent position and relations show that the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is moving towards focusing on soft governance and social technologies as the preferred means of influences. Thus we rename it New Public Governance (NPG).