Ethics in AI

Over the last decade, concerns about the power and danger of Artificial Intelligence have moved from the fantasy of “Terminator” to reality, and anxieties about killer robots have been joined by many others that are more immediate. Robotic systems threaten a massive disruption of employment and transport, while algorithms fuelled by machine learning on (potentially biased) “big data” increasingly play a role in life-changing decisions, whether financial, legal, or medical. More subtly, AI combines with social media to give huge potential for the manipulation of opinion and behaviour, whether to sell a product, influence financial markets, provoke divisive factionalism, or fix an election. All of this raises huge ethical questions, some fairly familiar (e.g. concerning privacy, information security, appropriate rules of automated behaviour) but many quite new (e.g. concerning algorithmic bias, transparency, and wider impacts). It is in this context that Oxford is creating an Institute for AI Ethics, to open up a broad conversation between the University’s researchers and students in the many related disciplines, including Philosophy, Computer Science, Engineering, Social Science, and Medicine (amongst others).
The Ethics in AI seminars are intended to facilitate this broad conversation, exploring ethical questions in AI in a truly interdisciplinary way that brings together students and leading experts from around the University.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Ethics in AI Seminar: Responsible Research and Publication in AI	Ethics in AI Seminar - presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI	Peter Millican, Rosie Campbell, Carolyn Ashurst, Helena Webb	12 July, 2021
Ethics in AI Colloquium with Adrienne Mayor: Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology	Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Adrienne Mayor, Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Armand D'Angour, John Tasioulas	12 July, 2021
AI in a Democratic Culture - Presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI	Launch of the Institute for Ethics in AI with Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Joshua Cohen and Hélène Landemore. Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI	Joshua Cohen, Hélène Landemore, Nigel Shadbolt	12 July, 2021
Does AI threaten Human Autonomy?	This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Peter Millican, Jonathan Pugh, Jessica Morley, Carina Prunkl	7 December, 2020
Privacy Is Power	Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Carissa Véliz, Sir Michael Tugendhat, Stephanie Hare, John Tasioulas	5 November, 2020
Algorithms Eliminate Noise (and That Is Very Good)	Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	John Tasioulas, Ruth Chang, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Cass Sunstein	5 November, 2020
Ethics in AI Education	This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Peter Millican, Milo Phillips-Brown, Max Van Kleek, Helena Webb	5 November, 2020
3f. Values and AI: view from public policy	Jo Wolff and Vafa Ghazavi, Blavatnik School of Government, gives the sixth and final talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Jo Wolff, Vafa Ghazavi	10 February, 2020
3e. AI and business	Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, gives the fifth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Alan Morrison	10 February, 2020
3d. AI and finance	Nir Vulkan, Saïd Business School, gives the fourth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Nir Vulkan	10 February, 2020
3c. Population health and AI: efficiency, accuracy and trust	Angeliki Kerasidou, Ethox Centre, gives the third talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Angeliki Kerasidou	10 February, 2020
3b. AI in healthcare	Claire Bloomfield, National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, gives the second talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Claire Bloomfield	10 February, 2020
3a. Rethinking ethics and humanities for the 21st Century	Mike Parker, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities gives the first talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Mike Parker	10 February, 2020
2e. Artificial Intelligence and the news	Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, gives the fifth talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).	Rasmus Kleis Nielsen	27 January, 2020
2d. Computational propaganda	Vidya Narayanan, Oxford Internet Institute,	Vidya Narayanan	27 January, 2020
2c. Use, users and the social context for AI	Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the third talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).	Gina Neff	27 January, 2020
2b. Capital, labour and power in the age of automation	Carl Benedikt Frey gives the second talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).	Carl Benedikt Frey	27 January, 2020
2a. AI Governance and Ethics	Allan Dafoe and Carina Prunkl, Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy give the first talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019).	Allan Dafoe, Carina Prunkl	27 January, 2020
A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI, involving experts from fields across Oxford - Seminar 1	An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare	Tom Douglas, Carissa Véliz, Vicki Nash, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Gil McVean, Jess Morley	20 January, 2020
1h. Ethics of AI in healthcare	Jess Morley, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the eigth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Jess Morley	11 November, 2019
1g. Ethics and AI at the Oxford Big Data Institute	Gil McVean, Big Data Institute, gives the seventh talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Gil McVean	11 November, 2019
1f. Re-uniting ethics and the law for AI	Brent Mittelstadt, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the sixth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Brent Mittelstadt	11 November, 2019
1e. When AI disrupts the law	Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the fifth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Sandra Wachter	11 November, 2019
1d. AI ethics and legal regulation	Vicki Nash, Oxford Internet Institute gives the fourth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Vicki Nash	11 November, 2019
1c. AI-ethics research at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy	Tom Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy gives the third talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Tom Douglas	11 November, 2019
1b. The place of philosophy in the ethics of AI	Carissa Véliz, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, gives the second talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Carissa Véliz	11 November, 2019
1a. Background and Aims of the Institute for Ethics in AI	Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College, Department of Computer Science, gives the first talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019.	Nigel Shadbolt	11 November, 2019

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