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Virginia Dignum

Organisation

Umeå University

Position

Professor

Biography

Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden and director of WASP-HS (wasp-hs.org), the largest Swedish national research program on fundamental multidisciplinary research on the  societal and human impact of AI. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and a Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence Association (EURAI). She is a member of the GPAI, WEF’s Global Artificial Intelligence Council, UNESCO expert group on AI, and ALLAI - Dutch AI Alliance. She was a member of EU’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence and leader of UNICEF's guidance for AI and children. She is author of “Responsible Artificial Intelligence: developing and using AI in a responsible way”. 

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