The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) has approved a new minitrack titled "AI Safety, Cybersecurity, and Inclusion through Advanced Text Analytics" for its 58th edition. Created by Institute on Disability and Public Policy Executive Director Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn and Internet Governance Lab senior research associates Haiman Wong and Theodore Ochieng, this minitrack aims to gather papers employing natural language processing (NLP) and text analytics techniques to enhance decision-making in AI safety, cybersecurity, and inclusion.
The minitrack encourages the exploration of AI applications for cyberthreat detection and the utilization of diverse text analytics techniques such as statistical bag-of-words and supervised ML/DL approaches. Minitrack papers should initiate a large-scale analysis of AI risk management frameworks, fairness approaches, and strategies for AI explainability and accountability. Methodological challenges like text summarization, sentiment analysis, and bias detection are also focal points of the minitrack. A fast-track publication opportunity with Data & Policy, published by Cambridge University Press, seeks selected papers in this minitrack.
The focus of the minitrack is closely aligned with that of The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) new U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC). The new consortium, which will include contributions from Dr. Cogburn, will also promote research on the development of safe and reliable AI systems. The Institute on Disability and Public Policy center anticipates unique insights into improving inclusion initiatives for persons with disabilities through this AI-centered research.
The acceptance of this minitrack to one of the most prestigious scientific conferences in the field of information systems underscores the growing importance of text analytics in AI safety, cybersecurity, and inclusion and the missions of American University’s Internet Governance Lab and Institute on Disability and Public Policy.
Read the full description of the “AI Safety, Cybersecurity, and Inclusion through Advanced Text Analytics” minitrack here.