Cut and Paste: Making Sense of our Digital Realities
- Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Building: Events Space 1.07
Members of the Department of Philosophy and Trent Philosophy Society are pleased to announce the second of three Ryle Lectures
Cut: Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Our technologies are perfectly evolved to take advantage of the digital realities within which they operate, like mangroves growing in brackish water. And in the infosphere, new forms of autonomous and adaptive agency are evolving. In this second lecture, I shall discuss a significant case of “digital cut”. I shall present the nature and success of Artificial intelligence (AI) not in terms of a marriage but as a divorce between the ability to perform a task to fulfil a goal successfully and the need to be intelligent in doing so. I shall then discuss and dismiss some sci-fi scenarios that AI will not bring about, and focus on the ethical challenges that are really posed by AI, presenting recent work done on how we may deal with them, in terms of an ethical framework for AI.
delivered by
Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford
Professor Floridi directs the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute, and is Professorial Fellow of Exeter College. He is also Turing Fellow and Chair of the Data Ethics Group of the Alan Turing Institute and has recently served as ethics adviser to companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Google, the UK government and the European Union on cutting-edge policy issues surrounding the ethics of digital technologies. His areas of expertise include digital ethics, the philosophy of information, and the philosophy of technology. Among his recent books, all published by Oxford University Press (OUP): The Fourth Revolution - How the infosphere is reshaping human reality (2014), winner of the J. Ong Award; The Ethics of Information (2013); The Philosophy of Information (2011). His most recent book, The Logic of Information, will be published by OUP in 2019.
The Gilbert Ryle Lecture Series was established by the Philosophy Department at Trent in 1977 in honour of the late Gilbert Ryle. This year’s lectures are supported by the Office of Provost & VP Academic, the Dean of Humanities, the Cultural Studies Department, Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics, Lady Eaton College, and by funds from members, alumni, and friends of the Department of Philosophy.
CONTACT INFO:
Kathy Axcell, Academic Administrative Assistant, Philosophy
philosophy@trentu.ca; 705-748-1011, x7166
Posted on September 19, 2018