Ethics of AI in Context

By: Ethics of AI Lab University of Toronto
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  • A selection of interviews and talks exploring the normative dimensions of AI and related technologies in individual and public life, brought to you by the interdisciplinary Ethics of AI Lab at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto.
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  • Conference: Trust and the Ethics of AI

    Conference: Trust and the Ethics of AI
    Jul 8 2022
    This workshop aims to address some of the insights that we have gained about the ethics of AI and the concept of trust. We critically explore practical and theoretical issues relating to values and frameworks, engaging with carebots, evaluations of decision support systems, and norms in the private sector. We assess the objects of trust in a democratic setting and discuss how scholars can further shift insights from academia to other sectors. Workshop proceedings will appear in a special symposium issue of C4eJournal.net. Speakers: Judith Simon (University of Hamburg), Can and Should We Trust AI? Vivek Nallur (University College Dublin), Trusting a Carebot: Towards a Framework for Asking the Right Questions Justin B. Biddle (Georgia Institute of Technology), Organizational Perspectives on Trust and Values in AI Sina Fazelpour (Northeastern University), Where Are the Missing Humans? Evaluating AI Decision Support Systems in Content Esther Keymolen (Tilburg University), Trustworthy Tech Companies: Talking the Talk or Walking the Walk? Ori Freiman (University of Toronto), Making Sense of the Conceptual Nonsense “Trustworthy AI”: What’s Next?
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    3 hrs and 23 mins
  • Conference: Afrofuturism And The Law

    Conference: Afrofuturism And The Law
    May 19 2022
    Long before the film Black Panther captured the public’s imagination, the cultural critic Mark Dery had coined the term “Afrofuturism” to describe “speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture.” Since then, the term has been applied to speculative creatives as diverse as the pop artist Janelle Monae, the science fiction writer Octavia Butler, and the visual artist Nick Cave. But only recently have thinkers turned to how Afrofuturism might guide, and shape, law. The participants in this workshop explore the many ways Afrofuturism can inform a range of legal issues, and even chart the way to a better future for us all. Introduction: Bennett Capers (Law, Fordham) Panel 1: Ngozi Okidegbe (Law, Cardozo), Of Afrofuturism, Of Algorithms Alex Zamalin (Political Science & African American Studies, Detroit Mercy), Afrofuturism as Reconstitution Panel 2: Rasheedah Phillips (PolicyLink), Race Against Time: Afrofuturism and Our Liberated Housing Futures Etienne C. Toussaint (Law, South Carolina), For Every Rat Killed
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Nathan Olmstead, We Are All Ghosts: Sidewalk Toronto

    Nathan Olmstead, We Are All Ghosts: Sidewalk Toronto
    Apr 13 2022
    As the fabric of the city becomes increasingly fibreoptic, enthusiasm for the speed and ubiquity of digital infrastructure abounds. From Toronto to Abu Dhabi, new technologies promise the ability to observe, manage, and experience the city in so-called real-time, freeing cities from the spatiotemporal restrictions of the past. In this project, I look at the way this appreciation for the real-time is influencing our understanding of the datafied urban subject. I argue that this dominant discourse locates digital infrastructure within a broader metaphysics of presence, in which instantaneous data promise an unmediated view of both the city and those within it. The result is a levelling of residents along an overarching, linear, and spatialized timeline that sanitizes the temporal and rhythmic diversity of urban spaces. This same levelling effect can be seen in contemporary regulatory frameworks, which focus on the rights or sovereignty of a largely atomized urban subject removed from its spatiotemporal context. A more equitable alternative must therefore consider the temporal diversity, relationality, and inequality implicit within the datafied city, an alternative I begin to ground in Jacques Derrida’s notion of the spectre. This work is conducted through an exploration of Sidewalk Labs pioneering use of term urban data during their foray in Toronto, which highlights the potentiality of alternative, spectral data governance models at the same time it reflects the limitations of existing frameworks. Nathan Olmstead Urban Studies University of Toronto
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    31 mins

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