In this article, we summarise two of the invited talks from the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. We hear from Andrew Ng and Marta Kwiatkowska, who talked about data-centric AI and robust deep learning respectively. Andrew began with a definition of data-centric AI – "the discipline of systematically engineering the data used to build an AI system". AI systems tend to consist of two parts: data and code. The conventional approach for developing such systems, and one which many researchers take, is to download a dataset and then work on the code.

In October 2021, Cynthia Rudin was announced as the winner of the AAAI Squirrel AI award. This award recognizes positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways. Cynthia was formally presented with the prize during an award ceremony at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, following which she delivered an invited talk. Cynthia began her talk, and set the scene for her research in interpretable AI, with the story of a project she carried out in New York City, where the goal was to maintain the power grid using machine learning. Some parts of the grid infrastructure in the city are as old as 140 years, and this inevitably leads to failures in parts of the system.

The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2022) started on Tuesday 22 February and runs until Tuesday 1 March. Although we haven't yet had the official opening ceremony, the talks and posters are available to view, and the LatinX in AI event has taken place. Here, we round-up some thoughts from participants, and we look ahead to some of the other events planned for this week. If you are attending AAAI 2022, please come by to our tutorial (Feb 23, 2022, 10 pm – 11:30 pm IST) MQ3: Hate Speech: Detection, Mitigation and Beyondhttps://t.co/Uw1jIRyGmn A particularly relevant topic since healthcare raises unique problems & challenges that require new methodologies & ways of thinking.

The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2022) starts on Tuesday 22 February and runs until Tuesday 1 March. Find out about some of the main events that are taking place throughout the virtual conference. AAAI have announced the following distinguished invited speakers at this year's conference. The diversity and inclusion events take place throughout the week. Click on the links below to find out more details about each event.