AIUK 2023 / AIFest5 Workshop - AI and Defence: Readiness, Resilience and Mental Health

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AI and Defence: Readiness, Resilience and Mental Health

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a cross-cutting technology that is making a major impact on behavioural analysis in both the defence and mental health sectors. Getting AI right can boost readiness and resilience of military personal.

Examples of AI for defence include machine learning of app-based self-reporting, blood test data and vocal pattern data for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) of social media/IoT conversations to identify signs of radicalization in the context of counter extremism. Examples of AI for mental health include image processing of brain scans to identify biomarkers associated with depression, automated analysis of electronic health record data, NLP for emotion and mood classification, and social media/IoT monitoring to predict or classify mental health illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia or other psychiatric illnesses including suicide ideation and attempts.

This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners working on and with AI in the Defence and Mental Health sectors to share experience gained and lessons learnt between these disciplines. We will discuss the key challenges AI faces today in these areas and attempt to signpost the current directions of travel within AI research to overcome these challenges in the short and medium term.

This virtual workshop is hosted as part of DSTL's AI Fest 5 event and is an AI UK-2023 fringe event. It is also supported by the UKRI TAS Hub grant EP/V00784X/1 and ESRC funded ProTechThem grant ES/V011278/1.

This event is part of AI UK 2023. The Alan Turing Institute’s national showcase of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence research and innovation. At a series of events between 6 – 31 March 2023, AI UK Fringe brings together leaders in academia from across the UK’s AI ecosystem to demonstrate, exhibit and update on their ground-breaking work. Examining the current and future landscapes of data science and AI in real-world settings, leadings minds discuss solutions to the most pressing concerns of our times, from environmental sustainability and health and life sciences to national security, defence and a data-driven economy.

We’re excited to be part of AI UK Fringe this March and can’t wait for you to join our community and contribute to key conversations. Find out more about AI UK at https://ai-uk.turing.ac.uk/

We invite potential participants from a wide range of areas as we expect the findings and wider AI challenges identified during this workshop will transfer well beyond just the defence and mental health sectors.

Event venue, date and timings:

Online event
Free registration
31st March 2023, 10:00 – 15:00, UK time
MS Teams link will be emailed to registered participants one week before the event.

Event webpage which includes registration link:

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sem03/AI-and-Defence-2023.html

Best wishes,
Stuart

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Dr Stuart E. Middleton, FHEA, Turing Fellow
Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Room: B32-4027A
twitter: @stuart_e_middle
ORDID id: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8305-8176
Web: https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/sem03

Projects and events
- Open source software @ github https://github.com/stuartemiddleton
- SafeSpacesNLP https://www.tas.ac.uk/safespacesnlp/
- ProTechThem http://www.protechthem.org/
- GloSAT https://www.glosat.org/
- AIFest5 / AIUK-2023 workshop - AI and Defence: Readiness, Resilience and Mental Health https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sem03/AI-and-Defence-2023.html



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