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CSTD Side-Event - Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and the Developing World


14 May 2019
14:00 - 15:00 hrs. Room XXVI, Palais des Nations
Geneva
, Switzerland

Side Event of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

 

Questions to be addressed:

  • How is the current wave of AI innovation likely to impact poor countries?

  • What policies may improve the capacity of developing countries to benefit from AI innovation?

  • Do you really want a computer to make ethical decisions like you do or should they follow purely logically a set of fixed rules?

  • If human beings have even occasional minor moral weaknesses; from whom should an autonomous artificial intelligence learn its ethics?

 

Panellists:

  • Mike Hinchey, President of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Chair of IEEE UK & Ireland and President of the Irish Computer Society.

  • Chrisanthi Avgerou, Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Don Gotterbarn, Researcher and promoter of professional computing practice, author of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.

  • David Kreps, Reader in philosophy of information systems at the University of Salford, UK.

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