Lecture on November 12th, 2020
What Is Good? Social Impacts of AI and Digital Governance
Joanna J. Bryson (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)
About the lecture
There are many movements concerning AI4Good, but what is good? Can and should we restrict the application of AI to only "good" domains? Or do concerns about regulating AI actually stretch more broadly to all digital technology? This talk explores ethical systems and the way technology and especially digital technology impacts the ethical systems of humans. We will look in particular about the roles of institutions such as governments and corporations in helping us structure and navigate individual well being.
About the speaker
Joanna J. Bryson is a transdisciplinary researcher on the structure and dynamics of human- and animal-like intelligence. Her research covering topics from artificial intelligence, through autonomy and robot ethics, and on to technology policy and human cooperation has appeared in venues ranging from a reddit to Science. She holds degrees in Psychology from Chicago and Edinburgh, and Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh and MIT. She has additional professional research experience from Princeton, Oxford, Harvard, and LEGO, and technical experience in Chicago's financial industry, and international management consultancy. Bryson is presently Professor of Ethics and Technology at Hertie School of Governance.
photo credit: Wouter van Vooren
Thursday, 12. November 2020, 18:15-19:45
– delivered in digital form –
Register here to get access to the lecture:
https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/eit/taming-the-machines/winter20-21.html
poster lecture Joanna Bryson [pdf]
programme "Taming the Machines" in winter 2020/21 [pdf]