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The European Union and the Scottish government have each expressed commitments to fostering responsible and ethical AI development. What opportunities and obstacles lie ahead on that path? What new alliances and governance cultures are needed to bring the ideal of ‘Responsible AI’ into existence? How can we build and sustain these by bridging the technical and moral demands of responsible AI innovation and governance?
Join us online on the 29th of March for a conversation on the future of Responsible AI between two leading voices in European and Scottish AI strategy and policy: Virginia Dignum (Umea University), author of Responsible Artificial Intelligence and advisor on EU AI policy and governance, and Albert King, Chief Data Officer in the Scottish government.
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Panellists:
Virginia Dignum is a Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden and is associated with the TU Delft in the Netherlands. She is the director of WASP-HS, the Wallenberg Program on Humanities and Society for AI, Autonomous Systems and Software, the largest Swedish national research program on fundamental multidisciplinary research on the societal and human impact of AI. Her current research focus is on the specification, verification and monitoring of ethical and societal principles for intelligent autonomous systems. She is committed to policy and awareness efforts towards the responsible development and use of AI, as a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, the working group on Responsible AI of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), the World Economic Forum’s Global Artificial Intelligence Council, lead for UNICEF's guidance for AI and children, the Executive Committee of the IEEE Initiative on Ethically Aligned Design, and as a founding member of ALLAI, the Dutch AI Alliance. Her book “Responsible Artificial Intelligence: developing and using AI in a responsible way” was published by Springer-Nature in 2019.
Albert King is Chief Data Officer and leads the Data Division in The Scottish Government: the centre of excellence for data in government. He is responsible for delivering platforms that support data and analytics for government and public sector partners, fostering data innovation and policy in data, digital ethics and AI.
About the Series
As part of the Centre’s Baillie Gifford Research Programme in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, the Technomoral Conversations series will host bimonthly dialogues on today’s hard questions about living well with technology. Moderated by Centre Director Shannon Vallor, these conversations bring together the diverse forms of technical and moral expertise held by academic researchers, industry professionals, community representatives and advocates, artists, students and voices from the public and third sector.
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