IN3’s Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) is pleased to invite you to the Seminar: «(How) Can you build ethics into Artificially Intelligence?», given by Kjetil Rommetveit, Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen.
The seminar —part of the Urban Transformation and Global Change Seminar Series— will be held, in hybrid format, on Thursday, January 9 at 11:00 am (CET) in Room C1.16 of the Interdisciplinary R&I Hub (Building C).
Venue
Interdisciplinary R&I Hub (Building C - C1.16)
Rambla del Poblenou, 154
08018 Barcelona
Espanya
When
09/01/2025 11.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab)
Program
Abstract
Over the last 5–10 years, one can observe a virtual explosion of academic and policy literature into the design of ethical principles, normative and legal considerations into artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies. In Europe, the most prominent expression of this is the High-Level Expert Group on AI (AIHLEG), but this initiative follows on the back of more than two decades of regulatory efforts in fields such as robo-ethics, data protection by design and default (GDPR § 25). Currently, a number of ethical standards are being developed and implemented for artificially intelligent systems, such as the IEEE 7000 standards series. In this presentation, RommetveitI asks whether ethical principles and problems can be hardcoded into digital systems. And, granted that this is in some sense already taking place, he will present some ways in which it this is now being done. Based on document studies and interviews with people involved in AI ethics, Rommetveit describe 4 1design articulations' that prescribe how ethics can and ought to be integrated into technical systems. Rommetveit use this analysis to reflect on developments in AI, and in governance of digital systems more generally, drawing parallels from ethics (as a mode of governance) to politics and law.
Rommetveit has a background in philosophy, law, and science and technology studies (Vitenskapsteori). His main research interests are in governance and politics of technoscience, and in the overall evolution of the knowledge society and modernity into conditions that we would call non-modern. He has studied interrelations of politics, governance, and technoscience in domains ranging from biomedicine (genomics), over security (biometrics, surveillance, and privacy) to energy transition and climate policies. Over the last years, his research has increasingly dealt with efforts to bring ever-more aspects of material, social and biological reality into digital mediation and datafication (such as Internet of Things, smart electricity, ‘smart’ technologies and AI).