POSTPONED – Ethics of, and Trust in, Artificial Intelligence

Mariarosaria Taddeo,
University of Oxford –
Abstract:
I will analyse the ethical opportunities and risks that artificial intelligence (AI) brings about and how ethical analyses can help to harness the potential for good of AI and mitigate its risks.
Bio
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo is Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where she is the Deputy Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, and is Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Her recent work focuses mainly on the ethical analysis of Artificial Intelligence, cyber security , cyber conflicts, and ethics of digital innovation. Her area of expertise is Philosophy and Ethics of Information, although she has worked on issues concerning Epistemology, Logic, and Philosophy of AI. In 2018, ORBIT listed her among the 100 experts working on AI in world. In the same year, she has been listed among the top 50 most inspiring Italian women working in digital technologies. Dr Taddeo has been awarded The Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy; and the World Technology Award for Ethics acknowledging the originality and her research on the ethics of cyber conflicts, and the social impact of the work that she developed in this area. Since 2016, Taddeo serves as editor-in-chief of Minds & Machines (SpringerNature) and of Philosophical Studies Series (SpringerNature).
Date: 2020-May-08 Time: 14:30:00 Room: Anfiteatro Abreu Faro, IST
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