Building a Responsible AI Ecosystem: Lessons from the Past and Future of Responsible Research and Innovation
Our Liverpool Virtual Seminar Series on Data Intensive Science will continue on Tuesday 12th March 2024 at 2.15pm GMT. The seminar will be given by Prof Shannon Vallor, the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures who will present “Building a Responsible AI Ecosystem: Lessons from the Past and Future of Responsible Research and Innovation”
Seminars in this series cover R&D outside of the data intensive science CDT’s core research areas and give an insight into cutting edge research in this area. At the end of the talk there will be a Q&A session with the speaker.
About the talk
This talk explores the historical origins, key issues, and growing importance of the interdisciplinary fields of AI ethics and data ethics, which today have become central concerns for data scientists, AI researchers and developers, policymakers and regulators, and even wider publics. This past year, the UK government alone committed over £100m in new research funding to the task of enabling a responsible AI ecosystem. We’ll explore what that means, and how this ambitious goal will impact current and future generations of data and AI practitioners.
About the speaker
Prof. Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also appointed in Philosophy. She is Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in EFI, and co-Director of the BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Professor Vallor's research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics, and data science, reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. Her work includes advising policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. She is a standing member of the One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence (AI100) and a member of the Oversight Board of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Professor Vallor received the 2015 World Technology Award in Ethics from the World Technology Network and the 2022 Covey Award from the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. She is a former Visiting Researcher and AI Ethicist at Google. In addition to her many articles and published educational modules on the ethics of data, robotics, and artificial intelligence, she is the author of the book Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press, 2016) and The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press, 2024).
How to attend
Participation is free, but you need to register to attend this and other webinars in the series. For more information and how to register please follow this link. Once registered, you will receive the Zoom connection details on the morning of the online seminar.
The seminar details
Speaker: Prof. Shannon Vallor, (University of Edinburgh)
Seminar title: “Building a Responsible AI Ecosystem: Lessons from the Past and Future of Responsible Research and Innovation”
Date/Time: Tuesday 12th March at 2.15pm GMT