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Convenor<\/strong><\/p>\n Markus Furendal<\/strong> (Postdoc The Global Governance of AI Department of Political Science, Stockholm University); governanceofai@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n *All times are British Summer Time (BST)<\/p>\n 08.00 \u2013 9.30 <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cApplying Measures of Artificial Intelligence to the Governance of Artificial Intelligence\u201d \u2013 David Gamez<\/strong> (Middlesex University)<\/p>\n \u201cAI as Black-Box: Phenomenological Reflections on the Crisis Posed by Opaque Machine Learning Methods\u201d \u2013 Daire Boyle<\/strong> (Maynooth University)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9.45 \u2013 11.05<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cArtificial Intelligence and Cultural Democracy\u201d \u2013 Jonathan Gingerich<\/strong> (King\u2019s College London)<\/p>\n \u201cAgainst AI Value Alignment<\/span>\u201d \u2013 Chelsea Guo<\/strong> (Oxford University)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.00 \u2013 1.20 P.M.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Dominant Power of AI Designers\u201d \u2013 Jonne Maas<\/strong> (Delft University of Technology)<\/p>\n \u201cAI Ethics, Ethics Washing, and the Need to Politicize Data Ethics\u201d \u2013 Gijs van Maanen<\/strong> (Tilburg University)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1.35 P.M.\u2013 2.15 P.M<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cAn Institutionalist Approach to AI Ethics: Justifying the Priority of Government Regulation over Self-regulation\u201d \u2013 Thomas Ferretti<\/strong> (LSE)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8.00 \u2013 9.20<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Basic Structure and AI Governance\u201d \u2013 Theodore Lechterman<\/strong> (Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University)<\/p>\n \u201cThe Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Some Normative Concerns<\/span>‘\u201d \u2013 Markus Furendal<\/strong> (Stockholm University)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9.35 \u2013 10.55<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAI and the Question of Political Legitimacy\u201d \u2013 Maria Nordstr\u00f6m<\/strong> (The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)<\/p>\n \u201cMachine Learning and Democratic Legitimacy\u201d \u2013 Karim Jebari, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg, Ludvig Beckman<\/strong> (Institute for Futures Studies, Uppsala University, Stockholm University)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12.00 \u2013 1.20 P.M.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cNot So Silent Power? Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Governance and Three Concepts of Liberty\u201d \u2013 Filip Bia\u0142y<\/strong> (European New School of Digital Studies \/ Collegium Polonicum, Adam Mickiewicz University<\/span>)<\/p>\n \u201cAI, Opacity and Personal Autonomy\u201d \u2013 Bram Vaassen<\/strong> (University of Cologne)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1.35 P.M. \u2013 2.30<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAutomating Anticorruption? The Challenges of Integrating Algorithms and Office Accountability\u201d \u2013 Emanuela Ceva & Mar\u00eda Carolina Jim\u00e9nez Garc\u00eda<\/strong> (University of Geneva)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Political philosophers have recently started to address the moral and social implications of increasingly complex Artificial Intelligence (AI), including the way that the biases of AI systems might entrench existing injustices, and whether decisions made by opaque AI systems can be legitimate. Philosophers and engineers also debate how to best rein in a hypothetical future \u201csuperintelligent\u201d AI system, and how to make sure that its values align with ours. Yet, countless other kinds of AI technology have already begun to be implemented throughout society, and even though many of them have potentially disruptive effects, there is still no systematic work addressing how the development and deployment of AI, more generally, ought to happen. The advent of AI technology is not merely a technical issue, and moral questions arise not only with regard to its applications. How AI is developed and deployed is also a political question, calling for collective decisions about what society ought to be like. For instance, the current AI boom has in part been enabled by publicly funded research and the collection of data about people\u2019s daily behavior, but most AI technology is developed and owned by relatively few large corporations. Since AI technology holds a promise to be tremendously profitable for those who own it, this raises the question of whether this state of affairs is just, or whether the value and productivity growth created by the technology ought to be shared more widely. Similarly, AI technology might provide us with greater convenience and increased human capacities, at the cost of values like privacy or community. Current decisions about what kinds of AI technology to develop are mostly made by private companies, based on a market logic, but there may be more fair or democratic alternatives. Who ought to have a say in this, and what kinds of institutions would have to be developed to ensure that it happens? Serious discussion of questions like these arguably needs to be informed by theories of justice, democracy, freedom, and power.<\/p>\n The purpose of the panel is to gather academics from different career stages to address this relatively neglected part of the rapidly evolving literature on the social and ethical impact of AI. Papers concerning moral issues involving the application of AI technology will be considered, but the aim is to interrogate issues at a higher level of abstraction, concerning what the social and ethical impact of AI technology will be, and how it ought to be shaped politically. This includes, but is not limited to, addressing questions like what the societal implications of the quickly developing AI technology are and what they ought to be, how to conceptualize ownership of AI technology and who gets to profit from it, how legitimate decisions about the development of AI ought to be made, and how to design (global) institutions to govern AI technology.<\/p>\n Submission guidelines:<\/strong> Information about Mancept Workshops<\/strong> This year\u2019s fees are:<\/strong> Markus Furendal [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Governing Artificial Intelligence Convenor Markus Furendal (Postdoc The Global Governance of AI Department of Political Science, Stockholm University); governanceofai@gmail.com *All times are British Summer Time (BST) September 9, 2021 Session I : Technical and theoretical aspects of AI 1 08.00 \u2013 9.30 \u201cApplying Measures of Artificial Intelligence to the Governance of Artificial Intelligence\u201d \u2013 David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3596,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Convenor<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMarkus Furendal<\/strong> (Postdoc The Global Governance of AI Department of Political Science, Stockholm University): governanceofai@gmail.com<\/a>\r\n\r\n
\nSeptember 9, 2021<\/h4>\n
Session I : Technical and theoretical aspects of AI 1<\/em><\/h6>\n
Session II : Technical and theoretical aspects of AI 2<\/em><\/h6>\n
Session III : Governance of AI 1<\/em><\/h6>\n
Session IV : Governance of AI 2<\/em><\/h6>\n
September 10, 2021<\/h4>\n
Session V : Governance of AI 3<\/em><\/h6>\n
Session VI : Governance through AI 1<\/em><\/h6>\n
Session VII: Governance through AI 2<\/em><\/h6>\n
Session VIII : Governance through AI 3<\/em><\/h6>\n
Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to governanceofai@gmail.com<\/a> by May 10<\/strong>. The abstract should be prepared for blind review. Please include a separate document with the title of your paper, your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation (if applicable). Acceptance\/rejection decisions will be communicated within two weeks. Speakers will be asked to submit complete papers before the workshop, which will be circulated among the panel participants.<\/p>\n
Due to uncertainty about the pandemic, this year\u2019s Mancept workshops will be fully online. Please note that all participants at this panel need to register for the Mancept workshops. Registration opens in May.<\/p>\n
Full price (employed academics e.g. lecturer, professor etc.): 45\u00a3
Discounted price (PhD\/Master Student, unaffiliated academic, etc.): 20\u00a3
Non-presenting attendee: 15\u00a3
For more information about the Mancept workshops, see
https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/mancept-workshops-2021\/<\/a> and please direct general queries to manceptworkshops@gmail.com<\/a>
Questions regarding the specific panel and the submission should be directed to
governanceofai@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n
Postdoc, The Global Governance of AI Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
www.markusfurendal.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\r\n\r\nPolitical philosophers have recently started to address the moral and social implications of increasingly complex Artificial Intelligence (AI), including the way that the biases of AI systems might entrench existing injustices, and whether decisions made by opaque AI systems can be legitimate. Philosophers and engineers also debate how to best rein in a hypothetical future \u201csuperintelligent\u201d AI system, and how to make sure that its values align with ours. Yet, countless other kinds of AI technology have already begun to be implemented throughout society, and even though many of them have potentially disruptive effects, there is still no systematic work addressing how the development and deployment of AI, more generally, ought to happen. The advent of AI technology is not merely a technical issue, and moral questions arise not only with regard to its applications. How AI is developed and deployed is also a political question, calling for collective decisions about what society ought to be like. For instance, the current AI boom has in part been enabled by publicly funded research and the collection of data about people\u2019s daily behavior, but most AI technology is developed and owned by relatively few large corporations. Since AI technology holds a promise to be tremendously profitable for those who own it, this raises the question of whether this state of affairs is just, or whether the value and productivity growth created by the technology ought to be shared more widely. Similarly, AI technology might provide us with greater convenience and increased human capacities, at the cost of values like privacy or community. Current decisions about what kinds of AI technology to develop are mostly made by private companies, based on a market logic, but there may be more fair or democratic alternatives. Who ought to have a say in this, and what kinds of institutions would have to be developed to ensure that it happens? Serious discussion of questions like these arguably needs to be informed by theories of justice, democracy, freedom, and power.\r\n\r\nThe purpose of the panel is to gather academics from different career stages to address this relatively neglected part of the rapidly evolving literature on the social and ethical impact of AI. Papers concerning moral issues involving the application of AI technology will be considered, but the aim is to interrogate issues at a higher level of abstraction, concerning what the social and ethical impact of AI technology will be, and how it ought to be shaped politically. This includes, but is not limited to, addressing questions like what the societal implications of the quickly developing AI technology are and what they ought to be, how to conceptualize ownership of AI technology and who gets to profit from it, how legitimate decisions about the development of AI ought to be made, and how to design (global) institutions to govern AI technology.\r\n\r\nSubmission guidelines:<\/strong>\r\nPlease send an abstract of no more than 500 words to governanceofai@gmail.com<\/a> by May 10<\/strong>. The abstract should be prepared for blind review. Please include a separate document with the title of your paper, your name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation (if applicable). Acceptance\/rejection decisions will be communicated within two weeks. Speakers will be asked to submit complete papers before the workshop, which will be circulated among the panel participants.\r\n\r\nInformation about Mancept Workshops<\/strong>\r\nDue to uncertainty about the pandemic, this year\u2019s Mancept workshops will be fully online. Please note that all participants at this panel need to register for the Mancept workshops. Registration opens in May. This year\u2019s fees are:\r\nFull price (employed academics e.g. lecturer, professor etc.): 45\u00a3\r\nDiscounted price (PhD\/Master Student, unaffiliated academic, etc.): 20\u00a3\r\nNon-presenting attendee: 15\u00a3\r\nFor more information about the Mancept workshops, see\r\nhttps:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/mancept-workshops-2021\/<\/a> and please direct general queries to manceptworkshops@gmail.com<\/a>\r\nQuestions regarding the specific panel and the submission should be directed to\r\ngovernanceofai@gmail.com<\/a>\r\n\r\nMarkus Furendal\r\nPostdoc, The Global Governance of AI Department of Political Science, Stockholm University\r\nwww.markusfurendal.com<\/a>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2072\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/mancept\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}