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This weekend, Joelma travelled to Montreal to present research entitled “Who Benefits from AI Explanations? Towards Accessible and Interpretable Systems”. Joelma presented this work at the Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), hosted at IJCAI 2025, the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
As more people and organizations turn to artificial intelligence (AI) for ideas and answers, it is essential to question whther the information AI provides is reliable and accurate.
In this interview, Peter answers questions on trust, uncertainty, and self-awareness, describing some of the ongoing projects we have in our lab, and ultimately cautioning people to be `rational skeptics’; to take advantage of AI but to not be naïve to its challenges and downsides.
Peter and Steve were both invited to attend the sixth Trusting Intelligent Machines workshop, hosted at Schloss Rauischholzhausen in Germany. The workshop included experts on trust, explainability, and artificial intelligence from academia and instrustry across Germany, the UK, Finland, and Canada. The theme of the workshop was exploring the personal and social consequences of the widespread outsourcing of human cognition to AI systems.
This week Peter and Stavros traveled to Detroit for the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).
There, Peter presented co-authored work with Zahra, entitled Evaluating Prompt Engineering Techniques for Accuracy and Confidence Elicitation in Medical LLMs at the 7th International Workshop on EXplainable, Trustworthy, and Responsible AI and Multi-Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS).
On the 16th of April, Mahadeo and Peter accepted an award from Empowered Kids Ontario for their Partnership in explainable AI. This award is one of fifteen Tribute Awards that recognize individuals, teams, and organizations that are changing the lives of Ontario kids with disabilities and developmental needs.
On April 7th, the Trustworthy AI Lab delivered a workshop in partnership with Oshawa Public Libraries aimed at providing attendees hands-on experience with different AI tools.
