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Ethics in IT
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Ethics in IT

Lecture on October 17th, 2019

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Mark Coeckelberg, University of Vienna

About the lecture
The ethics of artificial intelligence is a hot topic as fears and fascination dominate the public discussion. This talk moves away from science fiction and calls attention for more urgent and detailed ethical analysis of issues such as responsibility, transparency, and bias in the AI systems we have today. It also offers some recommendations for policy in this area.


About the speaker
Mark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). His expertise focuses on ethics and technology, in particular robotics and artificial intelligence. He is currently a member of various entities that support policy building in the area of robotics and artificial intelligence, such as the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence and the Austrian Council on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of 12 philosophy books and numerous articles, and is involved in several European research projects on robotics (e.g. INBOTS).

photo credit: Martin Jordan

Thursday, 17. October 2019, 18:15-19:45
Main Campus, lecture hall H
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg

poster lecture Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh [pdf]

programme  "Taming the Machines" [pdf] in winter 2019/20

site plans:
lecture halls at Edmund-Siemers Allee 1: ESA1 [pdf]
University of Hamburg (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 is number 12 in C3 of the map): UHH [pdf]