Events

Istanbul Bar Association, Health Technologies Conference – 14.2.2018

Invited Talk: AI Ethics in Health Technologies

We see more and more technologies using AI systems to become a part of healthcare and health-related products. The trend shows that use of such technology will be even more common place in the near future. While the benefits of these technologies are undisputable, they also open the door to unethical uses. In this talk, we go through several examples of AI technologies that show great success in healthcare and promotion of healthy lifestyle. While explaining how such technologies benefit people and even help solve existing ethical issues, we also stop to discuss their possible and probable unethical uses.

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TRAI, AI Summit – 14.2.2018

Invited Talk: AI and Ethics
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“Cansu Canca (AI Ethics Lab) and Timur Sırt (Sabah newspaper) conducted an engaging discussion on the ethics of artificial intelligence. In this interactive session, a number of existing and fictional ethics problems in AI were mentioned. It was emphasized that law is not equal to ethics. Where the main question in law is “how should we regulate X?”, ethics focuses on the question of “what is the right action/regulation”. Several examples were provided ranging from credit scores in the field of finance and gender biased targeted advertisements in the field of trade to the problem of unemployment in the field of production. The presentation was concluded with the claim that it is up to us to ensure that the artificial intelligence is beneficial for every group in the society.”

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TRAI, AI Summit: AI and Ethics Workshop – 14.2.2018

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The goal of the workshop is to look into ways of incorporating ethical design into AI systems. The workshop aims to bring basic concepts in ethics into practical application. Through cases, we will illustrate how ethical concerns and value judgements are integral to AI systems. Participants will take part in identifying ethical issues in existing and developing technologies and brainstorm about possible design solutions. In this interactive workshop we will analyze and evaluate design ideas for their ethical and social impact as well as for their effectiveness and efficiency.

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Lab Workshop: AI Ethics in Transportation – 12.2.2018

Transportation is an area where adoption of AI systems has become widespread. As the use of AI technologies in transportation becomes more common, its effects on our lives will be significant and various. While the most popular topic of discussion in this area has been the autonomous car version of “the trolley question”, where we must decide how the algorithm should react when faced with an inevitable crash killing pedestrians or passengers, this is not the most crucial ethical issue regarding AI systems and transportation. The effects of autonomous vehicles on the city planning and on disadvantaged areas, on jobs in transportation and based on transportation (such as roadside restaurants and accommodations), and on the security of data collected within and around the vehicle are just some of the ethical questions that arise. In this workshop, we will discuss ethics of AI and transportation, and we will take the first steps to form working groups focusing on this domain.

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NYU-UAEU, 3rd Joint Symposium on Social Robotics – 4-7.2.2018

Talk: IRBs for AI: An Unintelligent Choice (Feb. 7)
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“United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have joined forces in organizing the “3rd Joint UAE Symposium on Social Robotics” (JSSR2018) as part of “Innovation Month 2018”. This event features a multidisciplinary program that brings together renowned developers, roboticists, and social scientists from across the globe to discuss the state of the art in social robotics. Join the multi-site event, be part of the group of experts, share your research, check out new robot technology, and discuss the latest innovations in the field.”

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TRAI Meet-Up – 17.1.2018

Talk: AI Ethics and Health
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AI technologies are present in various areas of healthcare and health-related developments. These technologies are expected to get better and bigger, playing a crucial role in protecting and promoting our health and well-being. Use of AI systems in a wide range of health-related technologies from diagnostics and treatment to preventive and predictive medicine does and will have great positive effects on human well-being. However, if left unchecked, these technologies do and are expected to cause harm through unethical uses. In this talk, we map out the uses of AI systems in health-related areas and the ethical issues that we face.

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TRAI Workshop: AI and Ethics – 17.1.2018

We had our first Istanbul working group meeting on “AI Ethics” in collaboration with TRAI, where, together with lawyers and engineers, we focused on the existing and expected ethical issues in AI technologies.
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Türkiye Yapay Zekâ İnisiyatifi (TRAI) Çalıştay: Yapay Zekâ ve Etik
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TRAI iş birliği ile İstanbul’da yaptigimiz ilk “Yapay Zekâ ve Etik” çalıştayında hukukçular ve mühendislerle yapay zekâ alanında karşılaştığımız ve karşılaşmayı beklediğimiz etik sorunlara eğildik.

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Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference: The Ethics of Robotics and AI – 5-7.6.2017

Talk: RECs for AI: An Unintelligent Choice (June 6)
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“Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2017: The Ethics of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence aims to gather philosophers and scholars from other disciplines who will present papers on various ethical aspects of robotics and artificial intelligence (e.g. industrial, military, medical and healthcare robots, robots in entertainment, robots as personal companions, the moral status of robots and AI, artificial moral agents, responsibilities for the design and functioning of robots and AI systems, the impact of robotics and AI on human society).”

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