Ethics in AI Workshop | AI and Judgement
The Institute for Ethics in AI will be holding a one-day workshop on AI and Judgement. Attendance is by registration only and is open now. This is an all day event, however there are options to register for half a day.
Overview: The aim of the workshop is to examine the concept of judgement, especially in relation to rules (and the extent to which judgement is an application of rules), and then to consider to what extent human judgment might be enhanced, replaced, or undermined in different domains by AI tools. An important theme we'd like to pursue is the way in which judgement has varying significance and responds to different values/concerns in different domains of activity (e.g. cancer diagnosis v sentencing).
The workshop will begin with a panel in which the main speaker is Baroness Onora O'Neill, who has long written about judgement from the standpoint of philosophy. Then there will be a panel with the historian of science, Lorraine Daston, who has just published an important book called 'The Rules' (a wide-ranging discussion of all sorts of rules from spelling and sumptuary laws to monastic rules and traffic rules). After that, we will look at judgement/AI in specific domains with Lord Neuberger (law), Georgina Born (music recommendation), Fergus Gleeson (radiology prof at Oxford who uses AI-based technology), and Barry Smith (wine-tasting). There will be two commentators for each panel except for the wine-tasting session by Barry Smith.
Below is the provisional programme (subject to change):
8.30-9.15am - Registration - at the same time refreshments will be available.
9.15-9.30am - Introduction & Welcome by Professor John Tasioulas (EAI and Philosophy, Oxford)
9.30-11.00am - Session 1 PHILOSOPHY with key speaker Baroness Onora O’Neill Philosophy, (Cambridge) in discussion with Sir Nigel Shadbolt (Computer Science and EAI, Oxford), Professor Alison Hills (Philosophy, Oxford) and chaired by Dr Carissa Veliz (EAI and Philosophy, Oxford)
11:00-11.30am – REFRESHMENTS
11.30-1.00pm - Session 2 HISTORY with key speaker Professor Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) in discussion with Professor Abigail Williams (English, Oxford), Dr Grant Lamond (Law, Oxford) and chaired by Dr Karen Margrethe Nielsen (Philosophy, Oxford)
1.00 – 2.00pm – LUNCH
2.00-3.30pm - Session 3 CLINICAL MEDICINE with key speaker Professor Fergus Gleeson (Medicine, Oxford), in discussion with Andrew Trask (Computer Science, Oxford), Associate Professor Konstantinos Kamnitsas (Engineering Science, Oxford) and chaired by Dr Katya Hertog (EAI/OII, Oxford)
3.30 – 3.45pm - REFRESHMENTS
3.45-5.15pm - Session 4 LAW with key speaker The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (former President, UK Supreme Court) in discussion with Aislinn Kelly-Lyth (Blackstone Chambers), Professor Sandy Steel (Law, Oxford) and chaired by Professor Jeremias Prassl-Adams (Law, Oxford)
5.30-7.00pm - Session 5 - MUSIC with key speaker Professor Georgina Born (Anthropology and Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, and Music, KCL) in discussion with Dr Jenny Judge (Philosophy, NYU), Professor David De Roure (Engineering, Oxford) and chaired by Dr Linda Eggert (EAI, Oxford)
7.15-7.45pm - Session 6 - WINE with key speaker Professor Barry Smith (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
