27 June 2022

This two-day conference on philosophical issues about autonomy and responsibility in the area of AI technologies will take place in in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford on 27-28 June 2022. Live stream will be available. Prof. Dr. Judith Simon is going to talk about "Inquiring trustworthy AI: Can we trust AI - and should we?" on June 28, 2002. Other speakers are Mark Cockelbergh (University of Vienna), Maximilian Kiener (University of Oxford), Sven Nyholm (Utrecht University), Geoff Keeling (Google), Rafaela Hillerbrand (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Shannon Vallor.

Program and regsitration: https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/event/responsibility-and-autonomy-artificial-intelligence

Responsibility and Autonomy in Artificial Intelligence

A two-day conference on philosophical issues about autonomy and responsibility in the area of AI technologies. 

New technologies, especially those based on artificial intelligence (AI), develop at rapid speed. In fact, AI increasingly executes tasks that previously only humans could do, such as communicating freely with others (e.g. Alexa), driving cars, performing complicated medical tasks, firing guns as part of autonomous weapon system, or even selecting job applicants. What is more, AI increasingly outperforms humans: on average, AI is the better driver and in some domains of medical diagnosis, drug development, and the execution of treatment and surgery, AI already is, or soon promises to be, better than trained medical professionals. However, despite great promise, there are also risks and costs associated with these new technologies, leading to intricate ethical, social, and political questions. This conference will feature some of these questions, with a particular focus on questions related to autonomy and responsibility.