David Danks public lecture

3rd HMI Public Lecture: David Danks (CMU) 16/9/2019

Humanised Machines and Mechanised Humans: Challenges and Opportunities at the Interface

Much of the conversation about intelligent machines centers on those that function independently of people, whether self-driving cars, autonomous weapons, home healthcare robots, or many other innovations. But as technology plays an ever-larger role in our lives, we also must consider the ways in which human-machine teaming is rapidly becoming the norm: the line between us and the machines that we use is increasingly blurry. I will explore the distinctive challenges and opportunities that arise at this interface, ranging from biases that result from the interaction of machine and human decision-making, to strategies for developing machine intelligence that can be trusted.

David Danks is the L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology, and Head of the Department of Philosophy, at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), where he also co-directs the Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity (IDeaS) and is the Chief Ethicist of the Block Center for Technology & Society.

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