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<\/a>The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Ethics, Technology<\/strong>\n25 March 2019, 10:00 – 17:00
\nRoom SG1, The Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT<\/p>\n
This is the inaugural workshop of Giving Voice to Digital Democracies: The Social Impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology, a research project which is part of the Centre for the Humanities and Social Change, Cambridge and funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation.\u200b<\/p>\n
The workshop will bring together experts from politics, industry, and academia to consider the social impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology (AICT). The talks and discussions will focus on different aspects of the complex relationships between language, ethics, and technology. These issues are of particular relevance in an age when we talk to Virtual Personal Assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa ever more frequently, when the automated detection of offensive language is bringing free speech and censorship into direct conflict, and when there are serious ethical concerns about the social biases present in the training data used to build influential AICT systems.<\/p>\n
Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n Professor Emily M. Bender, University of Washington Giving Voice to Digital Democracies explores the social impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology \u2013 that is, AI systems that use speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialogue modelling, machine translation, natural language processing, and\/or smart telecommunications as interfaces. Due to recent advances in machine learning, these technologies are already rapidly transforming our modern digital democracies. While they can certainly have a positive impact on society (e.g. by promoting free speech and political engagement), they also offer opportunities for distortion and deception. Unbalanced data sets can reinforce problematical social biases; automated Twitter bots can drastically increase the spread of malinformation and hate speech online; and the responses of automated Virtual Personal Assistants during conversations about sensitive topics (e.g. suicidal tendencies, religion, sexual identity) can have serious consequences.<\/p>\n Responding to these increasingly urgent concerns, this project brings together experts from linguistics, philosophy, speech technology, computer science, psychology, sociology, and political theory to develop design objectives for the creation of AICT systems that are more ethical, trustworthy, and transparent. These technologies will have the potential to affect more positively the kinds of social change that will shape modern digital democracies in the immediate future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Program<\/strong> 10.00 \u2013 10.30 Welcome and Introduction<\/p>\n 10.30 \u2013 11.15 ‘AI Ready, Willing and Able? What Can the Government Do?’<\/p>\n 11.15 \u2013 11.30 11.30 \u2013 12.15 ‘Fair, Diverse and Equitable Technologies: The Need for Multiscale-Ethics’<\/p>\n 12.15 \u2013 13.00 ‘Can We Trust AI Systems?’<\/p>\n 13.00 \u2013 14.00 14.00 \u2013 14.45 ‘The Ethics of Language and Algorithmic Decision-making’<\/p>\n 14.45 \u2013 15.30 ‘A Typology of Ethical Risks in Language Technology with an Eye Towards Where Transparent Documentation Can Help’<\/p>\n 15.30 \u2013 15.45 15.45 \u2013 16.30 ‘Bias in the Vision and Language of Artificial Intelligence’<\/p>\n 16.30 \u2013 17.00 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 25th, 2019, I enjoyed attending a very interesting workshop, \u201cThe Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Ethics, Technology\u201d at the University of Cambridge. The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Ethics, Technology 25 March 2019, 10:00 – 17:00 Room SG1, The … Continue reading
\nBaroness Grender MBE, House of Lords Select Committee on AI
\nDr Margaret Mitchell, Google
\nDr Melanie Smallman, UCL, Alan Turing Institute
\nDr Marcus Tomalin, University of Cambridge
\nDr Adrian Weller, University of Cambridge, Alan Turing Institute, The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation<\/p>\n
\n9.30 \u2013 10.00
\nRegistration<\/p>\n
\nMarcus Tomalin (University of Cambridge)<\/p>\n
\nBaroness Grender MBE (House of Lords Select Committee on AI)<\/p>\n
\nBreak<\/p>\n
\nMelanie Smallman (University College London\/Alan Turing Institute)<\/p>\n
\nAdrian Weller (University of Cambridge\/Alan Turing Institute\/The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation)<\/p>\n
\nLunch<\/p>\n
\nMarcus Tomalin (University of Cambridge)<\/p>\n
\nEmily M. Bender (University of Washington)<\/p>\n
\nBreak<\/p>\n
\nMargaret Mitchell (Google)<\/p>\n
\nRound Table Discussion<\/p>\n