Ethical Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms - Series of lectures

Over recent years there has been increasing interest in issues such as fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in Informatics.  In response, the School of Informatics is hosting a monthly lecture series on "Ethical Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms" from January - June 2020.  The lecture series is co-funded by the School of Informatics, the UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing, the UKRI CDT in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence and the EPSRC CDT in Data Science.  It has been organized by Kousha Etessami, Chris Williams and Michael Rovatsos, based on suggestions solicited from the School.

Dates of Lectures

22 January - Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania

18 March - Susan Landau, Tufts University

23 April - Shannon Vallor, Santa Clara University

20 May - Richard Zemel, University of Toronto

24 June - Moritz Hardt, University of California, Berkeley

Links to events

 Lecture #1 -  'Ethical Algorithms',  Aaron Roth 

 CANCELLED Lecture #2 -  'Surveillance in an Era of Rapidly Changing Technologies: The Role Technologists "Can and Should" Play in Crafting Law',  Susan Landau 

Lecture #3 - 'Technology's Unpaid Debt: AI and the Promise of a More Humane Future, Shannon Vallor

Lecture #4 - 'Fairness in Dynamical Systems', Richard Zemel

Lecture #5 - 'Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities', Mortiz Hardt