'In Conversation' with Dr Claire Benn: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Artist: Kirill Maksimchuk
'In Conversation' with Dr Claire Benn: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Claire Benn
In Conversation event. 15 October 2020.
Algorithms are everywhere. They are being used to determine if you can get a loan, the price of your insurance and the news that you see, as well as the functioning of robots in industry, care facilities, on our streets and in our skies. It is easy to suppose that the computations behind these technologies are far better than relying on the prejudices and inclination of human decision-makers. But is the seemingly objective nature of data and artificial intelligence (AI) misleading? Dr Claire Benn believes that AI is permeated with ethical assumptions and values. And in this morally imperfect world, artificial intelligence holds up a mirror that amplifies and expands the moral flaws, limits and failings of the humans it lives amongst.
In this In Conversation event, Dr Claire Benn joined Dr Jason Ketter, Head of Advancement at the Australian National University (ANU) College of Asia and the Pacific, to explore the sampling of ethical issues with which AI is infused. Dr Benn explained what is AI, whether we should be worried about, the importance of ethical design, and how this might call for us to alter how we understand our own morality.
Watch here.