20 October 2022

Prof. Dr. Judith Simon is one of the speakers at this seminar series, which offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies. In her talk on October 20, 2022 at 19:00 CEST, Judith Simon will first turn to the question whether we can sensibly talk about trust in AI systems. Proposing a socio-technical view on AI, she will argue that we can trust AI systems, if we conceive them as systems consisting of networks of technologies and human actors, but that we should trust them if and only if they are trustworthy. Simon will conclude her talk by outlining some epistemic and ethical requirements for trustworthy systems and two caveats.

When: 20.10.2022, 19:00 CEST

Where: hybrid, virtual access details: https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/seminars/Dis%2FTrusting-AI%3F

More about this seminar series: https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/events-seminars

DIS/TRUSTING AI ?

Judith Simon

Recent advances in data analysis have led to the development of an abundance of technologies to support human-decision making in many societal domains. Such applications, often labeled artificial intelligence, employing machine learning and other types of statistical data analysis for classification, prediction and decision support. Due to their widespread utilization, they affect most of us on a daily basis, albeit in different ways. As countless cases have demonstrated, data-based systems are prone to biases and may further entrench or even increase inequalities and discrimination by transforming biased evidence into seemingly neutral numbers. As a result, the question arises whether and under what conditions we can or should trust such systems. In my talk I will first turn to the question whether we can sensibly talk about trust in AI systems. Proposing a socio-technical view on AI, I will argue that we can trust AI systems, if we conceive them as systems consisting of networks of technologies and human actors, but that we should trust them if and only if they are trustworthy. I will conclude my talk by outlining some epistemic and ethical requirements for trustworthy systems and two caveats.