How can we teach artificial intelligence to make unbiased decisions? How can we protect citizens' privacy when processing extensive amounts of data? Questions such as these need answers before the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning can be extended further. In spring 2018, inboxes filled to the point of frustration with messages from businesses and organisations announcing their measures related to the entry into force of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR by its common name. The purpose of the regulation was to improve the privacy of citizens whose personal details are stored in various databases, a matter that is closely related to the research conducted by Associate Professor Antti Honkela at the University of Helsinki.

Helsinki, Finland - An audience of international peace brokers have gathered inside a room in the historic House of Estates. They have come from South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Ukraine, Colombia and elsewhere to hear a scientist speak. That scientist is Timo Honkela, and his keynote speech on the second day of April's National Dialogues conference is titled Peace from a Different Perspective - a Dialogue of a Million People. But 54-year-old Honkela is working on a machine that he hopes will facilitate world peace. "World peace would be a good goal to work for in my remaining days," he says, smiling over a cup of coffee during a break in the conference.

Attempts to develop AI systems are based on ontological and epistemological assumptions that guide the development explicity or implicitly. Philosophical understanding can guide the development of AI systems the tasks of which are inherently linked within human language and knowledge. On the other hand, the development of AI systems may potentially provide understanding of philosophical questions that would be difficult or even impossible without the use of computational methods and models. In this presentation, some elements of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and its development is considered in parallel with the developments that have taken place in AI research over the past half a century. Ways on how computational modeling could be used as empirical theoretical philosophy are considered. In addition, some current and hypothetical future means for studying philosophical works through computational means is discussed.

Helsinki, Finland - An audience of international peace brokers have gathered inside a room in the historic House of Estates. They have come from South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Ukraine, Colombia and elsewhere to hear a scientist speak. That scientist is Timo Honkela, and his keynote speech on the second day of April's National Dialogues conference is titled Peace from a Different Perspective - a Dialogue of a Million People. But 54-year-old Honkela is working on a machine that he hopes will facilitate world peace. "World peace would be a good goal to work for in my remaining days," he says, smiling over a cup of coffee during a break in the conference.