SIGIR'24 Government Day (on AI and AI policy)

This July 17 Government Day is part of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference, which is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in AI and information retrieval. The conference consists of five days of full papers, short papers, resource & reproducibility papers, perspective papers, system demonstrations, doctoral consortium, tutorials, and workshops focused on research and development in the area of information retrieval.

Governments have been waking up to AI, and have increasingly recognized the importance of related disciplines such as Information Retrieval (IR), as we can see by the US's Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence and the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act. The astounding advances in AI capabilities over the past few years have driven a surge of interest in the public sector. How can AI be used for the public good? How can IR help in the process? How should governments relate to AI technology and companies? When governments, politicians, and public interest groups look at making AI and IR part of their process, and how should that best be done?

This single-day Government Day program aims to highlight how governments utilize AI to benefit the public and provide new services that enhance people's quality of life. The IR community is uniquely positioned to support the public sector by developing AI tools that deliver precise and grounded results. For decision-makers who shape public policies and societal impacts, IR has been and will continue to play a critical role.

We have invited a number of speakers who will address the government role in AI safety, the ways in which IR and AI technologies are used by government agencies to offer public services and respond to citizens, the government’s vision for funding AI research, and more. The program can be found at: https://sigir-2024.github.io/call_for_participation_government_day.html

Registration for attendees is open for all interested in this topic. Registration link: https://sigir-2024.github.io/attend_registration.html

Host or Publisher Association of Computing Machinery SIGIR'24