ai ethics
Events
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Misinformation
For better or worse, the revolutionary potential of AI has reached public consciousness, with a growing recognition of the ways that AI might change how we live and work together. Indeed, the fabric of society is already changing in front of our very eyes, with powerful profiteers of AI rallying behind its supposed inevitability. The AI revolution is afoot and it seems as if there is nothing that we can do about it. However, Donald Trump’s emerging alliance with Silicon Valley’s “Magnificent Seven” provides a potent reason for pause and for sustained reflection on the path we are collectively treading.
To discuss how AI, like any other technology, is part of a societal process of struggle, negotiation, and cooperation, this lecture series brings together experts from philosophy, law, and cognitive science. How are technologies like AI grounded in social processes of knowledge production, design, and innovation? What is the environmental impact of AI systems and what ecological responsibilities fall to providers, politicians, and users? What is the human rights impact of AI technologies deployed in military and security contexts? And what, to speak with Nietzsche, renders AI ‘all too human’ after all?
Join us at our “Taming the Machine” lecture series this summer term to explore with our distinguished guests these and other related questions. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Repairing AI for Environmental Justice
Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bonn in Germany. Aimee is director of the Institute for Science and Ethics and the Bonn Sustainable AI lab. She is co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI. In each of her roles, Aimee works to uncover the ethical risks associated with emerging robotics and AI. Aimee’s current research, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, brings attention to the sustainability of AI by studying the hidden environmental costs of developing and using AI.
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. Repairing AI for Environmental Justice
Taming the Machines — Horizons of Artificial Intelligence. The Ethics in Information Technology Public Lecture Series
This summer‘s „Taming the Machine“ lecture series sheds light on the ethical, political, legal, and societal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI).This lecture series brings together perspectives from ethics, politics, law, geography, and media studies to assess the potential for preserving and developing human values in the design, dissemination, and application of AI technologies. How does AI challenge our most fundamental social, political, and economic institutions? How can we bolster (or even improve) them in times of technological disruption? What regulations are needed to render AI environments fairer and more transparent? What needs to be done to make them more sustainable? In what sense could (and even should) we hold AI accountable?
To explore these and other related questions, this public lecture series invites distinguished international researchers to present and discuss their work. To get the latest updates and details how to attend the lectures, please visit http://uhh.de/inf-eit.
Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, D
Institutions
- UHH
Public Lecture Series: Taming the Machines. The Future of Prediction. Algorithmic Forecast in Science and Society
This lecture series invites viewpoints from different relevant disciplines to explore how we can preserve and advance human values through the development and use of AI technologies. Key questions include: How does AI impact our fundamental social, political, and economic structures? What does it mean to lead a meaningful life in the AI age? What design and regulatory decisions should we make to ensure digital transformations are fair and sustainable?
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elena Esposito, Universität Bielefeld, DE
Institutions
- UHH
The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy
Professor Ignacio Cofone, McGill University
The Hamburg Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law (NAIL) invites you to its next event. We are pleased to welcome Professor Ignacio Cofone from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He presents his latest book in which he demonstrates why our legal system is unable to adequately protect our privacy in the reality of new data-driven technologies such as AI. The lecture is followed by a subsequent discussion on the topic. The event will be held in English.
The event will take place in person at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law, Rothenbaumchaussee 33, Room A125. No registration is required for this.
There is also the option of participating online. Please sign up by emailing nail@ile-hamburg.de.
Institutions
- Network for Artificial Intelligence and Law (NAIL)
Towards Responsible Conversational AI
This year, open-domain conversational AI systems have finally reached the general public: they are widely accessible, excel w.r.t. the naturalness and fluency of their generated output, and provide helpful responses for many of the users’ requests. However, there are still many open challenges — in particular, relating to ethical aspects of their design: for instance, conversational AI systems are prone to encode and amplify unfair stereotypes and are exclusive to many speakers identifying as members of underrepresented cultural and subcultural groups. In this talk, I will present some of these challenges and discuss potential solutions towards responsible AI-based future communication.
You can find all the details and (eventually) the material at the Indico agenda: https://indico.desy.de/event/38994/
Was macht KI mit Bildung? Herausforderungen und Chancen im Klassenzimmer
Ist KI das Zaubermittel gegen Lehrkräftemangel, wenn Algorithmen und Roboter künftig den Unterricht übernehmen? Oder schreibt die App den Schulaufsatz, erledigt die Hausaufgaben und macht Lernkontrolle unmöglich? Wie funktioniert KI genau und wo kann sie auch zu mehr Bildungsgerechtigkeit beitragen? Und was bedeuten die digitalen Tools für Schule und Unterricht, für Schüler:innen, aber auch für Lehrkräfte und Eltern?
Dazu, den Potenzialen und Risiken rund um ChatBots und digitale Tools in der Bildung, diskutieren wir mit KI-Vorreiter:innen, führenden Expert:innen, Schüler:innen und dem Publikum.
Bei der Live-Talkrunde dabei sind: die Abiturientin und Vorsitzende der Schüler:innenkammer Hamburg Lina Diedrichsen, Martina Mörth, Diplom-Psychologin und Leiterin des Berliner Zentrums für Hochschullehre, die Journalistin und Autorin des KI-Newsletters “Natürlich intelligent” Marie Kilg sowie Hamburgs Digital-Schulberaterin und Leiterin der Kompetenzstelle KI am Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung und Schulentwicklung, Britta Kölling. Neben Menschen, die beruflich KI und ihre Nutzung in der Bildung aktiv mitgestalten, sollen auch die Stimmen von Schüler:innen, Eltern und der interessierten Öffentlichkeit in der Diskussion zu Wort kommen. Begeisterung und Besorgnis von Laien und Profis – alles hat hier Raum.
Moderation: Nina Heinrich, Journalistin, Redakteurin und Podcasterin
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Institution
- ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
Universität Hamburg
Adeline Scharfenberg