Seminar on May 10, 2021

Title

Interdisciplinary Approaches to understanding data and AI ethics from JUST AI: Joining Up Society and Technology for AI

Speaker

Drs. Alison Powell, Imre Bard and Louise Hickman, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

When and Where

May 10, 2021, 16:00-17:00
Online on Zoom, see TAS Resilience Node for registration or send an email to Valeria Cardellini

Abstract

As AI and other data-intensive technologies appear to sink into the background, questions of their ethics extend in all directions. No longer do ethical concerns extend only to questions about the principles which ought to guide the development of AI systems, nor the ethical quality of outcomes generated through the use of AI systems, this now also encompasses the practice of ethics within the contexts where AI works. These fields are changing fast, growing in range, depth and influence in the UK and across the world.

The JUST AI project has been working to create interdisciplinary strategies for representing and intervening in this field. Some of our core research questions concern how ethics is defined, understood and practiced and what dynamics influence the inclusion, exclusion or marginalization of particular ideas about ethics.

In this seminar members of the JUST AI team will discuss our interdisciplinary work mapping, understanding and intervening in the definitions and relationships defining AI and data ethics in the UK. We will discuss the challenges of using bibliometrics, data visualizations and surveys to understand these dynamic changes as well as share insights gained from our most recent phase of research.