Title:
South African professor elected to chair Unesco expert group on AI
Author:
Schalk Burger
Published:
Engineering News, 30 June 2020
https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/south-african-professor-elected-to-chair-unesco-expert-group-on-ai-2020-06-30
From the article:
University of Pretoria Department of Philosophy academic Professor Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem has been elected as the chairperson of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Ad Hoc Expert Group (AHEG) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which will formulate a recommendation for the first global standard-setting instrument on the ethics of AI.