Workshop 3: Ethics and AI Workshop

Ethics and AI

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This is the third workshop in our popular Water & AI series. We will explore some of the ethical issues surrounding the development, training, and use of AI. Please join us for what promises to be an interesting angle on the usual buzz around AI. We have a great line up of talks from people across the University, with some really interesting angles on the topic.

Objectives:  

The objectives of this third workshop will be to:

1. Understand some of the ethical issues that relate to the current AI revolution through expert talks from academics at Leeds researching or teaching ethics and AI.
2. Share your experience and practice in using these tools and discuss any Ethical concerns or ideas that you may have.

Agenda:

Section one: Expert Presentations

Introduction, Mark Trigg, water@leeds Associate Director

• Talk 1: General introduction to AI ethics, Dr Paula Satne, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
• Talk 2: Yet another silver bullet?  Untangling promises, potential and hidden exploitation in AI and water debates., Prof Anna Mdee, School of Politics and International Studies
• Talk 3: Collective privacy recovery: Data-sharing coordination via decentralized artificial intelligence, Prof Evangelos Pournaras, School of Computing
• Talk 4: Methods In Analysing Bias in University Text, Rawan Bin Shiha, School of Computing

Section two: World Café style discussions.

Participants engage in a series of collaborative discussions at multiple tables, with each table focusing on a specific topic. After a set period, participants rotate to a new table to discuss a different topic, allowing for a broad exchange of ideas and insights.

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