Mon 23/05/2022 13:00 – 14:00
Please Join us for this meeting of the Ai-Cop.
We have some exciting speakers for you including our first external speaker, they will explore the role of ethics in Ai from 3 different aspects:
– Dr. Zachary Goldberg, has been working with Dr. James Ferryman on several EU innovation projects and is an expert in the area of applied ethics in ethical AI, biometrics, surveillance and many other related areas. He will talk about Ethics in Ai research. More about Zachary:
https://www.trilateralresearch.com/our_team/zachary-j-goldberg/ https://www.ted.com/talks/zachary_goldberg_the_importance_of_thinking_over_thoughts_what_moral_philosophy_brings_to_a_technological_society?language=en
– Prof. James Ferryman will be talking about the technology and related ethical issues of the EU PROTECT project (www.projectprotect.eu) relating to application of innovative biometric identification on-the-move for border control. Prof. James Ferryman is Research Division Leader for Computer Science and leads the Computational Vision Group. Professor Ferryman has acted as the Director of both the British Machine Vision Association and the Security Information Technology Consortium. James’s research interests are in computer vision and include automated surveillance and monitoring, multimodal biometrics, and benchmarking, with a particular focus on application to border security.
– Dr Jumbly Grindrod will discuss moral issues that arise regarding day-to-day use of AI technologies in everyday life. Dr Grindrod has been active in researching context-sensitivity and the semantics-pragmatics interface, and how corpus analytics can be used to help answer philosophical questions. His work in Computational belief and AI are also of particular interest to this group.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1688178?journalCode=sinq20
https://jumblygrindrod.wordpress.com
We hope that this will be the first of several sessions about the role of ethics in AI at the University of Reading which may lead to several tools and guides in this area.