Digital Deceptions - Online safety, AI and Islam

Digital Deceptions - Online safety, AI and Islam

DUE TO THE DISTURBING NATURE OF SOME OF THE INFORMATION BEING PRESENTED, CHILDREN UNDER 14 WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND.

Oakwood Primary welcomes you to Digital Deceptions. Join us for an insightful event focusing on online safety, AI, and Islam. Discover how to navigate the digital world securely while exploring the intersection of technology and religion. At Oakwood Primary, we want parents to be completely aware of some of the real dangers that young people can face in the online world. Across the education sector we are picking up some frightening cases. We want to ensure that parents have the knowledge and skills to help keep their children safe. Crucially, there are developments around AI (Artificial Intelligence) that can have severe ethical implications for our children and communities. As a community, we are very far behind on our understanding around AI. We are grateful that we will have a panel of experts including Dr Yaqub Chaudhury, who is a leading academic in the field of AI. Our experts will delve into topics such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and the impact on the Islamic community. Don't miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and engage in meaningful discussions.

• 80% of children have had a negative experience online.
• 58% of Children have been bullied online in some way.
• 1 in 5 children who use the internet have been sexually solicited online.

At Oakwood Primary, we want parents to be completely aware of some of the real dangers that young people can face in the online world. Across the education sector we are picking up some frightening cases. We want to ensure that parents have the knowledge and skills to help keep their children safe. Crucially, there are developments around AI (Artificial Intelligence) that can have severe ethical implications for our children and communities. As a community, we are very far behind on our understand around AI.

This is an event targeted towards parents from the Islamic community, but all are welcome to attend.

Doors open at 6pm for registration and light refreshments. Event starts promptly at 6:30pm.

We are grateful to Luton Grappling Club for sponsoring this event and to Crescent Hall for supporting us.

Dr Yaqub Chaudhary is a Visiting Scholar at the Leverhulme Centre at the University of Cambridge for the Future of Intelligence. His research interests are highly interdisciplinary and the central themes of his research include the epistemology of AI, ML and digital computation, and their use in science and the humanities. His wider research interests span philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, philosophy of mind, history, religious studies, the social and political sciences, and other fields. He completed his doctoral studies in Physics at Imperial College London in the field of Plastic Electronics. He has written on Islam and AI, the use of AI in the ecological sciences and climate change research, the metaphysics of AI, and on emerging technologies such as the philosophy of augmented reality. He is also a research fellow at Cambridge Muslim College.