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On 20.11.2024, Delia Balzer from LINGA hosted an inspiring event with panelists Susanne Knaak (Niedersachsenbüro – Neues Wohnen im Alter), Dr. Frank Ursin (Hannover Medical School), and Patrick Ney (City of Hannover).
Prof. Selma Saidi emphasized the importance of building trust and acceptance in AI-based assistive technologies by enhancing reliability and safety. She highlighted how smart city digitalization—through advanced compute and wireless communication infrastructure—can foster trustworthiness by integrating diverse sensor data to improve environmental awareness, redundancy, and overall system reliability.
Two critical questions shaped the discussion:

1. How AI can support decision-making and determine the right balance of trustworthy assistance, with an example of an autonomous Robotdog guiding visually impaired people.
2. The tension between safety and privacy in data sharing ("Safety versus Freedom").

Special thanks to Tanja Föhr for conceptualizing the event and to Delia Balzer for exceptional moderation. More information can be found here.

On 20.11.2024, Delia Balzer from LINGA hosted an inspiring event with panelists Susanne Knaak (Niedersachsenbüro – Neues Wohnen im Alter), Dr. Frank Ursin (Hannover Medical School), and Patrick Ney (City of Hannover).
Prof. Selma Saidi emphasized the importance of building trust and acceptance in AI-based assistive technologies by enhancing reliability and safety. She highlighted how smart city digitalization—through advanced compute and wireless communication infrastructure—can foster trustworthiness by integrating diverse sensor data to improve environmental awareness, redundancy, and overall system reliability.
Two critical questions shaped the discussion:

1. How AI can support decision-making and determine the right balance of trustworthy assistance, with an example of an autonomous Robotdog guiding visually impaired people.
2. The tension between safety and privacy in data sharing ("Safety versus Freedom").

Special thanks to Tanja Föhr for conceptualizing the event and to Delia Balzer for exceptional moderation. More information can be found here.