This event explores the ways in which artificial intelligence will affect human life, and its emerging ethics and human rights-related questions. Artificial Intelligence is advancing, reflecting a growing tendency to delegate decision-making to algorithms. Big data, namely the availability of enormous volumes of data on all kinds of human activity, further enhances the effectiveness of algorithms. New technology can assist, but also threaten, the goals surrounding human rights.
In the short-term, these dangers include perpetuating bias in algorithmic reasoning. In the longer term, concerns surround the ownership of data, the increasing power of technology companies, and changes in the nature of work. On an existential level, entities which are not alive in traditional ways, but may be sentient and intellectually superior to humans, threaten existing frameworks of morality.
About our Panel:
Jim Waldo is an American computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer of Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Technology and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Lily Hu is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. She splits her time between working in the fields of algorithmic fairness and machine learning and thinking and writing about the philosophy and politics of artificial intelligence. At the Berkman Klein Center, she will study the role of algorithmic systems as resource distribution mechanisms with a focus on how their design, adoption, and deployment bear on matters of distributive justice.
Jessica Fjeld, Lecturer on Law and the Assistant Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She focuses her legal practice on issues impacting digital media and art including intellectual property; freedom of expression, privacy, and related human rights issues; contract; and corporate law. Recently, she has emphasized work with AI-generated art, the overlap of existing rights and ethics frameworks on emerging technologies, and legal issues confronted by digital archives. She is a member of the board of the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder organization the protects and advances user freedom of expression and privacy around the world.
Blakeley Hoffman Payne is a graduate research assistant in the Personal Robots Group. Her research focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence and how we might teach children to be conscientious consumers and designers of AI. Before joining MIT, Blakeley earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of South Carolina in 2017.
$30 ticket price includes heavy hors d'oeuvres, and there is a cash bar available (cash only).
Online tickets are available through Tuesday, October 1st at noon. Tickets will also be sold at the door for $35.
