Prof. Matthew Montebello, who specialises in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Education, has been invited at an EU project cross-perspective meeting in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

The TADAM project is about Tools & Awareness about Disinformation, Algorithms and Media involving nine European partners to raise awareness of the impact of AI and algorithms in the media. The main aim of this project is to exchange best practice and design educational resources specifically linked to the issue of the impact, both positive and negative, of artificial intelligence and algorithms in the media, the production of news and the way it is received by the public.

Prof. Montebello was invited to speak about the impact of AI literacy, explainability, and public understanding together with the social use and impact of AI.

At the meeting other invited experts from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR), Bordeaux Aquitaine Institute of Journalism (IJBA) and the University in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (UCLouvain) discussed numerous issues related to media and journalism with a main focus on the advent of Generative AI and the disruption it generated in this area like others around the world.