Realistic and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence
18th June: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm BST
The Las Casas Institute will be launching the recent publication Realistic and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence by Maggi and Zak Savin-Baden on Thursday the 18th of June in the Aula, Blackfriars Hall. This will be an ‘in-conversation’ event with the authors, Kester Brewin, David Burden, Sarah Hayes, and Elaine Kasket.
This event is open to everyone and free registration is required.
Current perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI) tend to focus on the wide parameters between fear and hope. Realistic and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence provides some (ethical) hope with realistic solutions. It deals with the complexities of AI, unpacking specific challenges presented by the AI problem and suggesting what we do about them.
This book is written by an experienced researcher and a young innovator, with expert reflections from researchers and practitioners. It promotes community-focused, collective values and ethical uses of AI, and it challenges ideologies based on capitalist modes of consumption, privilege and exploitation. Chapters explain current understandings of AI, how it has developed since its inception and the various types of AI. The text explores issues such as scraping of data, privacy, unethical corporate practices, trust and AI abuse, as well as outlining the potential environmental, social and psychological impact of AI – for better and for worse.
You can purchase the book at this link
Speakers
Kester Brewin is Associate Director at the Institute for the Future of Work, a research and development institute exploring how AI and automation technologies are impacting the labour market in the UK. He is also an author of several books on technology and social history, including, most recently, God-like: a 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence in Myths, Machines, Monsters.
David Burden has been involved in AI and immersive environments since the 1990s, delivering over 100 Virtual reality and conversational AI projects across the globe, including for the MOD. David has published widely, co-authoring Virtual Humans in 2019 and is currently series co-editor for Taylor & Francis on The Metaverse Series. David is an ex-Royal Signals officer, a Chartered European Engineer and is currently studying for a PhD in Wargaming Urban Conflict.
Professor Sarah Hayes, University of Bath Spa has co-edited the Springer books Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (2022) and Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community (2023). She recently led two projects funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council about Data and disadvantage and Extending Human Data Interaction.
Dr Elaine Kasket is an expert on technology’s role within our work, individual psychology, and relationships. Her latest book is Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World (2023). She is a leading Counselling Psychologist, inspiring keynote speaker, effective psychological/ transformational coach, and seasoned storyteller.
Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, is the co-author, this is her 30th book. Funded by JISC and the Leverhulme Trust, Maggi has explored the impact of learning in Virtual Worlds, and now plans to continue researching Digital and Artificial Intelligence at Blackfriars Hall’s Las Casas Institute for Social Justice. For the last five years she has been a member of the William Temple Foundation Ethical Futures group, through which she met which Dr Maria Power, resulting in a fruitful collaboration.
Zak Savin-Baden is a PhD student at Cranfield University studying AI driven monitoring of UK and Australian pollinators for biodiversity and sustainable land management.
Venue: Blackfriars Hall -
St Giles
Oxford,
OX1 3LY
United Kingdom
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Contact:
Las Casas Institute
lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk