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Petter Ericson

Staff scientist at the AI Policy Lab, with a background in formal descriptions of structured data, with a strong interest in ethics, music and the interactions between society and technology.

Contact

petter.ericson@umu.se

Works as

Staff scientist at Department of Computing Science

MIT-huset, Umeå universitet, MIT.F.241 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Question Zero for explainability and vice versa: the case of the EU’s AI first strategy

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: 23rd International Conference, EPCE 2026 Held as Part of the 28th HCI International Conference, HCII 2026 Montreal, QC, Canada, July 26–31, 2026 Proceedings, Part I, Cham: Springer 2026 : 17-31

Dignum, Virginia; Carli, Rachele; Dahlgren Lindström, Adam; et al.

Helpful, harmless, honest?: sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through reinforcement learning from human feedback

Ethics and Information Technology, Springer Nature 2025, Vol. 27, (2)

Dahlgren Lindström, Adam; Methnani, Leila; Krause, Lea; et al.

'AI first' to 'Purpose first': rethinking Europe's AI strategy

Umeå University 2025

Dignum, Virginia; Carli, Rachele; Ericson, Petter; et al.

AI chatbots are not therapists: reducing harm requires regulation

Tech Policy Press 2025

Dignum, Virginia; Ericson, Petter; Tucker, Jason

AI policy for whom?: reclaiming governance from capitalist capture

Proceedings of the eighth AAAI/ACM conference on AI, ethics, and society (AIES-25): main track I, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025 : 838-849

Ericson, Petter; Carli, Rachele; Tucker, Jason; et al.

Chord types and figuration: a Bayesian learning model of extended chord profiles

Music & Science, Sage Publications 2025, Vol. 8

Finkensiep, Christoph; Ericson, Petter; Klassmann, Sebasian; et al.

Solitary silence and social sounds: music can influence mental imagery, inducing thoughts of social interactions

Scientific Reports, Springer Nature 2025, Vol. 15, (1)

Herff, Steffen A.; Cecchetti, Gabriele; Ericson, Petter; et al.

Tree-based generation of restricted graph languages

International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, World Scientific 2024, Vol. 35, (1 & 2) : 215-243

Björklund, Henrik; Björklund, Johanna; Ericson, Petter

Tracing class and capitalism in critical AI research

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, TripleC 2024, Vol. 22, (1) : 307-328

Ericson, Petter; Dobbe, Roel; Lindgren, Simon

Joint Postproceedings for the Workshops and Tutorials at the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) (preface)

CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS 2024 : I-III

Ericson, Petter; Khairova, Nina; De Vos, Marina

A shift in artistic practices through artificial intelligence

Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, MIT Press 2024, Vol. 57, (3) : 293-297

Tatar, Kivanç; Ericson, Petter; Cotton, Kelsey; et al.

ACROCPoLis: a descriptive framework for making sense of fairness

FAccT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency, ACM Digital Library 2023 : 1014-1025

Aler Tubella, Andrea; Coelho Mollo, Dimitri; Dahlgren, Adam; et al.

Musereduce: a generic framework for hierarchical music analysis

Music Encoding Conference 2022 Proceedings, Music Encoding Initiative 2023 : 40-51

Ericson, Petter; Rammos, Yannis; Rohrmeier, Martin

Uniform Parsing for Hyperedge Replacement Grammars

Journal of computer and system sciences (Print), Elsevier 2021, Vol. 118 : 1-27

Björklund, Henrik; Drewes, Frank; Ericson, Petter; et al.

The jazz harmony treebank

Proceedings of the 21st ISMIR Conference : 207-215

Harasim, Daniel; Finkensiep, Christoph; Ericson, Petter; et al.

Concordia: A musical XR instrument for playing the solar system

Journal of New Music Research, Routledge 2020, Vol. 49, (1) : 88-103

Snook, Kelly; Barri, Tarik; Bolles, Monica; et al.

Parsing Weighted Order-Preserving Hyperedge Replacement Grammars

Proceedings of the 16th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, Association for Computational Linguistics 2019 : 1-11

Björklund, Henrik; Drewes, Frank; Ericson, Petter

Order-preserving graph grammars

Report / UMINF, 19.01

Ericson, Petter

Minimisation and Characterisation of Order-Preserving DAG Grammars

Report / UMINF, 18.15

Björklund, Henrik; Björklund, Johanna; Ericson, Petter

Parsing Weighted Order-Preserving Hyperedge Replacement Grammars

Report / UMINF, 18.16

Björklund, Henrik; Drewes, Frank; Ericson, Petter

Uniform Parsing for Hyperedge Replacement Grammars

Report / UMINF, 18.13

Björklund, Henrik; Drewes, Frank; Ericson, Petter; et al.

On the Regularity and Learnability of Ordered DAG Languages

Implementation and Application of Automata: 22nd International Conference, CIAA 2017, Marne-la-Vallée, France, June 27-30, 2017, Proceedings, Cham: 2017 : 27-39

Björklund, Henrik; Björklund, Johanna; Ericson, Petter

Complexity and expressiveness for formal structures in Natural Language Processing

Report / UMINF, 17.13

Ericson, Petter

Uniform vs. Nonuniform Membership for Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages: A Brief Survey

Algorithms, MDPI 2016, Vol. 9, (2)

Björklund, Henrik; Berglund, Martin; Petter, Ericson

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Parsing for Hyperege Replacement DAG Grammars

Proc. 10th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2016), Springer Publishing Company 2016 : 521-532

Björklund, Henrik; Drewes, Frank; Ericson, Petter

Investigating different graph representations of semantics

Sixth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Umeå University, 17-18 November, 2016