New report explores opportunities and limitations of using AI in environmental regulation and risk management
Environmental challenges are growing in complexity and public agencies are under pressure to respond quickly with limited resources. Together with IPUR Visiting Fellow Marla Orenstein, we developed a new report to offer practical guidance on how artificial intelligence (AI) can help. Titled Using AI to assess and manage environmental risk: a toolkit for the public […]
Upcoming online webinar on how technology is changing environmental risk communication and management
As part of IPUR’s seminar series, join us in this online fireside chat where our experts and industry professionals delve into how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and remote sensing are changing the ways in which environmental risks are assessed, communicated, monitored, and mitigated. The webinar will take the format of […]
IPUR welcomes Marla Orenstein
IPUR is pleased to welcome a new visiting scholar as of January, 2025. Marla Orenstein recently finished a six-year tenure as Director of Resources, Environment and Economy at the Canada West Foundation, a public policy think tank based in Calgary, Canada. In this role, she focused on using policy to maximise sustainability and prosperity as […]
Seminar: How AI can support better human decision making
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5IXEvAaj8o&t=513s Interpretable machine learning can provide addition ways for a user to understand and interact with an AI. However, transparency for the main purpose of oversight is closely needed in order to best support the human and AI interaction, and human decision making process. This was of one of the key points by Prof Finale […]
Workshop in Bangladesh: Shaping efforts to digitise and introduce AI in maternal healthcare
The Institute of the Public Understanding of Risk attended a workshop in Bangladesh to present findings from the study on “Mobilizing AI for Maternal Health in Bangladesh”. The aim of the workshop was to share findings of a research paper and identify key points for early inclusion in government policy on the application of artificial […]
IPUR’s AI for social good in pregnancy monitoring project now working directly with government agencies
Since kicking off its AI for social good in pregnancy monitoring project, IPUR has made significant progress in data collection and initial presentation of research findings. The latest development of the project will see IPUR present some of these key insights to government agencies in Bangladesh. The aim is that some of these recommendations and insights […]