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Fall 2024
Vol. 45, Issue 3

XAI is in trouble
Highlighting four critical challenges facing XAI
pgs.300-316

In search of verifiability
Exploring the effectiveness of AI explanations in AI-advised decision making
pgs. 317-332

Implementation of the EU AI Act
Examining interdisciplinary efforts and navigating challenges
pgs. 333-337

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Conference (FLAIRS-34) was to be held May 17-19, 2021, at the Double Tree Ocean
Point Resort and Spa in North Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Due to COVID-19 pandemic
and travel restriction, the conference held both virtual and in-person. The planned
conference events included tutorials, invited speakers, special tracks, and presentations
of papers, posters, and awards. The conference chair was Keith Brawner from the Army
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University, Prague, and Eric Bell, USA. The special tracks were coordinated by Fazel
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Report on the AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Manufacturing

By Mark Maybury, Chief Technology Officer, Stanley Black & Decker,

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Ask-Me-Anything

AI experts answer your questions! See all of our AMAs. Your questions will be submitted to these guests and a video will be recorded with their answers and posted on the Interactive AI Magazine and in the weekly AI Alert.

Ask your questions to Dr. Myers here!

For our fifth AMA, we have Karen Myers, Ph.D. Dr. Myers is the Lab Director for SRI International’s Artificial Intelligence Center.

Dr. Myers’ research focuses on intelligent systems that facilitate man-machine collaboration. Her expertise includes autonomy, multi-agent systems, automated planning and scheduling, and intelligent assistants. She has led the development of several AI technologies that have been successfully transitioned into operational use in areas that span collaboration tools, task management, and end-user automation.

Dr. Myers has served on the Executive Council for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). She was on the editorial boards for Artificial Intelligence and the Journal for AI Research and the advisory board for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. She is the conference chair for the Innovative Applications of AI conference for 2019. She was elected SRI Fellow in 2016.

Myers has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the University of Toronto, and a degree in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Ask your questions to Dr. Myers here!