Agenda s01e06

This is the list of topics around which we will be structuring the panel discussion.

• Why human agency and oversight are key requirement of "Trustworthy AI"?
• How AI systems make errors and which configurations of Human-in-the-loop could help?
• Contexts, constraints, social bases. When AI can (or should) be a legal agent?
• Dependence lock-in. How to reduce dependence on machine-driven networks which erode people's abilities to think and act for themselves?
• What is the future of humans in an age of accelerating technological change?

Panelists

Ansgar Koene

Dr. Ansgar Koene is Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at EY (Ernst & Young) where he contributes to the work on AI governance, trusted AI frameworks and AI related public policy engagement. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Horizon Digital Economy Research institute (University of Nottingham) where he contributes to the policy impact and public engagement activities of the institute and the ReEnTrust and UnBias projects.

Ansgar chairs the IEEE P7003 Standard for Algorithmic Bias Considerations working group, and participates in the IEEE standards, certification (ECPAIS) and the European Public Policy Committee for ICT. Other standards development work includes participation in the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC42 AI and the CEN-CENELEC Focus Group for AI.

He is a trustee for the 5Rgiths foundation for the Rights of Young People Online and is part of the 5Rights Digital Futures Committee.

Ansgar has a multi-disciplinary research background, having worked and published on topics ranging from Policy and Governance of Algorithmic Systems (AI), data-privacy, AI Ethics, AI Standards, bio-inspired Robotics, AI and Computational Neuroscience to experimental Human Behaviour/Perception studies. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience.

Idoia Ana Salazar

Co-founder and president of the Observatory of the Social and Ethical Impact of Artificial Intelligence (OdiseIA). She is Principal Investigator of the SIMPAIR Research Group (Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) , focusing mainly on the need for a multicultural approach to Ethics in AI.

She is a specialist in Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, a professor in international degrees at CEU San Pablo University and is the author of the books: 'The Myth of the Algorithm: Tales and truths of Artificial Intelligence (co-author with Richard Benjamins),' The Revolution of robots: How Artificial Intelligence and robotics affect our future 'and' The depths of the Internet: Access information that search engines cannot find and discover the intelligent future of the Internet ' (written in spanish), as well as scientific and informative articles oriented to investigate and raise awareness about the impact of Artificial Intelligence. He is also founding member of Springer AI and Ethics journal and member of the Global AI Ethics Consortium.

Koorosh Aslansefat

Koorosh Aslansefat was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1989. He received the BSc. degree in marine electronics and communication engineering from Chabahar Maritime University, in 2011, and the MSc. degree in control engineering from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree with the University of Hull, Hull, U.K., working on data-driven reliability-centred evolutionary and automated maintenance for offshore wind farms.

In parallel, his is also working on SafeML project to address artificial intelligence (AI) safety and explainability. His main research interests are in reliability and safety engineering, Markov modelling, performance assessment, artificial intelligence, optimization, and stochastic modelling.

Nikita Lukianets

Nikita Lukianets, a Founder of the Open Ethics initiative that fosters the inclusive dialogue between experts and citizens to design systems where humans and AI successfully work together. Nikita is also a Founder and CTO at PocketConfidant AI, a 24/7 coaching technology powered by artificial intelligence.

Previously, as a fellow with SIGNALIFE Ph.D. program in life sciences in France, Nikita worked on supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms for neuronal classification, bridging approaches in neurobiology and statistical learning.

Nikita Lukianets has more than 10 years of experience in Human-Computer Interaction and has partnered with multiple organizations to help them build human-centered interfaces. While working in Microsoft at Developer and Platform Evangelism Division, Nikita was leading a startup support program helping young technology companies to develop their products for scale.

Nikita received an MBA in innovation management from Politecnico di Milano School of Management and M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Ben Byford [moderator]

Ben is now mostly a freelance AI / ML teacher, speaker and ethicist and tinkerer – in his spare time he makes computer games. He can be found in Bristol and London. Ben is able to successfully cut through the jargon and help technologists and non-tech savy personnel work effectively. As an extension of this he also teaches with Decoded who runs workshops all over the world.

His public speaking and lecturing blends his insights within AI and ethics, web technologies, and entrepreneurship; focusing on the usage of technology as a tool for innovation and creativity. 

Ben authors the Machine Ethics Podcast, which consists of interviews with academics, writers, technologists and business people on the theme of AI and autonomy. Ben also does talks about Machine Ethics and as in the process of writing a short introduction book into the subject.

Open Ethics Series

Open Ethics Series is the chain of educational events around impact of artificial intelligence. The first Series aims to cover the main principles emerging from the broad range of discussions on requirements for development and deployment of AI. The topics will include those that are part of the Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI by European Commission (Privacy & data governance, Human agency & oversight, Robustness & safety, Transparency, Fairness, Societal & environmental well-being, Accountability), as well as additional topics proposed by the community.

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