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SUMMARY:Online Lecture: 'Ethics\, AI\, and the “right to a human decisio
 n”' - Dr Linda Eggert (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:State actors increasingly use machine-learning tools to make d
 ecisions that significantly affect people’s lives. The worry that human 
 agency is increasingly eclipsed has\, in turn\, given rise to assertions o
 f a novel ‘right to a human decision’ – roughly\, a right not to be 
 subject to fully automated decision-making.\n\nIn this month’s Balliol O
 nline Lecture\, Dr Linda Eggert (Early Career Fellow in Philosophy) explor
 es how such a right might be justified and how\, as AI becomes increasingl
 y powerful and prevalent\, working out what we owe to one another requires
  an understanding of not just what our values are\, but also why we hold t
 hem.\n\nDr Linda Eggert is an Early Career Fellow in Philosophy\; her work
  spans topics in moral\, political\, and legal philosophy\, and mainly add
 resses issues in normative and practical ethics and theories of justice. S
 he is especially interested in duties to rescue and the ethics of other-de
 fence\, issues in non-consequentialist ethics\, and global and rectificato
 ry justice. Her work also explores how these areas bear on the ethics of a
 rtificial intelligence and digital technology\, particularly the ethics of
  delegating to AI.\n\nBefore joining Balliol as an Early Career Fellow\, L
 inda was an Interdisciplinary Ethics Fellow at the McCoy Center for Ethics
  in Society at Stanford University\, a Fellow-in-Residence with the Edmond
  & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University\, and a Technology &
  Human Rights Fellow with Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
  Linda completed her DPhil at Oxford in 2021.\nSpeakers:\nDr Linda Eggert 
 (University of Oxford)
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SUMMARY:On the “Right to a Human Decision” - Dr Linda Eggert (Universi
 ty of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240215T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:State actors increasingly use machine-learning tools to make d
 ecisions that significantly affect people’s lives. The worry that human 
 agency is increasingly eclipsed has\, in turn\, given rise to assertions o
 f a novel ‘right to a human decision’ – roughly\, a right not to be 
 subject to fully automated decision-making. This talk explores how such a 
 right might be justified\, by identifying three possible approaches. The f
 irst grounds the right to a human decision in the notion of human dignity\
 ; the second in the desire to be judged by an agent with the capacity to g
 rasp and explain moral reasons\; and the third justifies the right on the 
 grounds that it is constitutive of\, and contributes to\, the exercise of 
 certain democratic values. On the basis of this discussion\, I suggest thr
 ee things. First\, justifying a ‘right to a human decision’ is\, despi
 te its intuitive appeal\, a surprisingly involved – though not impossibl
 e – enterprise. Second\, it may give us considerably more than we bargai
 ned for. Finally\, what appeals to such a right seek to accomplish may\, i
 n many cases\, be better achieved by broader principles of justice that ca
 nnot be reduced to individual rights. In the end\, working out what we owe
  to one another as we continue to make AI increasingly powerful and preval
 ent\, requires working out not just what our values are\, but also why we 
 hold them.\nSpeakers:\nDr Linda Eggert (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Magdalen College (Grove Auditorium (entrance from Longwall St)\; 
 wheelchair accessible\; remote attendance also welcome)\, High Street OX1 
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SUMMARY:Ethics in AI Colloquium - 'AI\, Democracy\, and the Common Good' -
  Professor Mark Cockelbergh (University of Vienna)\, Dr Zeynep Pamuk (Univ
 ersity of Oxford)\, Professor Isabelle Ferreras (University of Louvain)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240125T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:As many leading voices in debates about ethics and AI recogniz
 e\, AI creates risks for democracy and we need to democratize AI. But what
 \, exactly\, are these risks\, and what does it mean to democratize AI? Dr
 awing on his forthcoming book Why AI Undermines Democracy And What To Do A
 bout It\, Mark Coeckelbergh offers an overview of some of the risks and mo
 bilizes the tradition of political-philosophical republicanism to argue th
 at and why AI should be developed in a more participatory way and serve th
 e common good\, enabled by education and regulation that create possibilit
 ies for non-domination and communication.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Mark Cocke
 lbergh (University of Vienna)\, Dr Zeynep Pamuk (University of Oxford)\, P
 rofessor Isabelle Ferreras (University of Louvain)
LOCATION:St Luke's Chapel\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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SUMMARY:Ethics in AI Colloquium - 'Why Do We Expect More of Machines Than 
 We Do of Ourselves?' - Mr Justice Fraser\, Dr Caroline Green (Oxford)\, Dr
  Linda Eggert (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract TBA\nSpeakers:\nMr Justice Fraser\, Dr Caroline Green
  (Oxford)\, Dr Linda Eggert (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:St Luke's Chapel (Oxford)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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SUMMARY:Ethics in AI Colloquium - Do we need new human rights for the digi
 tal era? - Professor Yuval Shany (King's College\, London)\, Professor Mar
 tin Scheinin (University of Oxford)\, Dr Linda Eggert (University of Oxfor
 d)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221202T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The same rights that people have offline must also be protecte
 d online’ is used in recent years as a dominant concept in international
  discourse about human rights in cyberspace. But does this notion of ‘no
 rmative equivalency’ between the ‘offline’ and the ‘online’ affo
 rd effective protection for human rights in the digital age? The talk will
  seek to describe the contours of a new digital human rights framework\, w
 hich goes beyond the normative equivalency paradigm. It involves a typolog
 y of three ‘generations’ or modalities in the evolution of digital hum
 an rights – the radical reinterpretation of existing rights\, the develo
 pment of new rights and the introduction of new right and duty holders. Em
 phasis will be placed on the emergence of new digital human rights\, with 
 the presentation of two prototype rights (the right to Internet access and
  the right not to be subject to automated decision). \nSpeakers:\nProfesso
 r Yuval Shany (King's College\, London)\, Professor Martin Scheinin (Unive
 rsity of Oxford)\, Dr Linda Eggert (University of Oxford)
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SUMMARY:Artificial Agency - Dr Patrick Butlin (University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221123T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In some cases\, ethical questions about the use of AI systems 
 can be addressed without much reflection on what kinds of entities those s
 ystems are\; instead\, we need to know things like what the systems can do
  and how reliable they are. In other cases\, however\, it matters what kin
 d of thing we are dealing with. For example\, the problem of the ‘respon
 sibility gap’ is said to exist partly because AI systems are not the kin
 ds of things which can be morally responsible for their behaviour. One of 
 the fundamental issues in this area is what it would take for AI systems t
 o be agents. I will present an account of minimal agency in AI\, building 
 on the premise that agents pursue goals through interaction with environme
 nts. To understand agency\, we need to distinguish activity which constitu
 tes the pursuit of a goal from activity which merely constitutes the perfo
 rmance of a function.\nSpeakers:\nDr Patrick Butlin (University of Oxford)
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SUMMARY:Where Will We Be in A Hundred Years? - Dr Elise Bohan (University 
 of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221116T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:We’re not the first humans to have asked this question. But 
 future-scoping has become a uniquely weighty task in an age of advanced AI
 \, computers and a complex global system. Together\, we’ll challenge our
 selves to imagine what might lie ahead for humanity (and what the good lif
 e might look like) in an AI saturated world. We’ll also explore the limi
 ts of the imagination as we hit a predictive event horizon\, and consider 
 how storytelling can both enhance\, and constrain\, our thinking about the
  future.\nSpeakers:\nDr Elise Bohan (University of Oxford)
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SUMMARY:Intention and Knowledge: The Conundrum of Civil Society's Role in 
 Our Technological Future - Vilas Dhar (Patrick McGovern Foundation)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221109T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:For centuries\, civil society's role has been to advocate for\
 , protect and advance the interests of the vulnerable. This responsibility
  is of particular importance during periods of deep societal transformatio
 n (industrial revolution\, armed conflict\, political unrest\, structural 
 economic adjustment). Today the rift between technological impacts on soci
 al\, moral and economic relationships and civil society's responsive capac
 ity calls into question whether each of those functions of advocacy\, prot
 ection and advancement can be effectively performed.\n\nThis seminar recap
 s the structural\, strategic\, and tactical challenges civil society faces
  in responding to AI-driven technology transformation. We then identify so
 me early successes in developing systemic responses and lays out a promisi
 ng path for co-creation of a technological future rooted in human interest
 .\nSpeakers:\nVilas Dhar (Patrick McGovern Foundation)
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Sustainability - Stefani
 e Kunkel (IASS Potsdam)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221026T130000
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DESCRIPTION:Actors from business\, civil society and politics are increasi
 ngly interested in applying systems of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for da
 ta analysis and decision making in numerous realms of society. While ethic
 al caveats of AI are more prominent in the debate\, its environmental impa
 cts in different application contexts are less discussed. This is problema
 tic\, given that the direct and indirect impacts of AI on the environment 
 can be substantial\, e.g.\, carbon footprint of training and use of AI\, p
 otential emission increases due to efficiency enhancing technological chan
 ge). In this talk\, Stefanie Kunkel (IASS Potsdam) will give insights into
  the link between the development and use of artificial intelligence and e
 nvironmental sustainability. She will also present a project idea which ai
 ms at engaging industry and policy stakeholders in developing and implemen
 ting a participatory approach to measuring and steering environmental impa
 cts of AI in industry. Finally\, Stefanie would like to discuss with the a
 udience which are the most critical steps towards translating scientific a
 dvice on more ethical and environmentally conscious AI into practical guid
 ance for programmers\, business representatives and policymakers.\nSpeaker
 s:\nStefanie Kunkel (IASS Potsdam)
LOCATION:Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building (Dororthy Crowfoot Hodgkin Buil
 ding\, Biochemistry Phase 2)\, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
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