TAISIG Talks: Eric Postma on extraterrestrial life
Channel: TilburgUniversity
Date: 2021-02-24

To facilitate collaboration among researchers from different AI related fields, in the TAISIG Talks series, Tilburg University brings together AI experts from various domains to discuss their most recent findings. Each TAISIG talk features three scientists with different backgrounds and at different stages in their careers.

Eric Postma, Esther Keymolen and Chris Emmery kicked off the TAISIG Talks.

Esther Keymolen, Associate Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society. Esther’s research concerns the intersection of law and ethics where she focuses on trust, trustworthiness and privacy in technological applications. Currently, most of our enterprise takes place online, and we are worried about how our personal data is being used for commercial purposes. It is important that developers of new technologies work together with end users and address potential ethical challenges related to the intended context of use.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/KWoRNA1viWM 

Chris Emmery, AI researcher specialized in the field of adversarial computational stylometry. He explained how in his scientific work, he first examines what kinds of personal information can be collected by mining our publicly available text data, for example, texts placed on social media. Subsequently, using style obfuscation with auto-encoders, he creates and employs open source tools that combat invasive author profiling and thus help us protect ourselves against attempts to compromise our personal identity.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/y968hwGCBOw 

More information on TAISIG: https://tilburguniversity.edu/taisig