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Ethical Issues in AI and Computing Conference

In partnership with Social & Ethical Responsibilities of Computing at MIT, Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard is excited to announce a workshop on ethical issues in AI and computing (broadly construed). This conference will bring together scholars working from the Greater Boston area and beyond to discuss research, pedagogy, and other topics in these areas.

Scroll down for more information, registration, and the full programme. An accessible large print PDF of the programme is available for download.

Program Booklet

Event Dates

9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, June 2–3, 2022

Event Host

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Keynote Speakers

Luciano Floridi

Luciano Floridi
University of Oxford
(attending remotely)

David Kaiser

David Kaiser
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

James Mickens

James Mickens
Harvard University

C. Thi Nguyen

C. Thi Nguyen
University of Utah

Kathy Pham
Harvard Kennedy School
and Mozilla Foundation

Alison Simmons

Alison Simmons
Harvard University

Programme

June 2

TimePresenter
9:00 – 9:15 Opening remarks: Barbara Grosz & Alison Simmons (Harvard)
9:15 – 10:30Keynote: Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford)
10:30 – 10:4515 minute break
10:45 – 11:30The Role of Imaginative Variation in Ethics by Design
Stacy Doore (Colby) & Fernando Nascimento (Bowdoin)
11:30 – 12:15Legitimacy of what? A call for democratic AI design
Jonne Maas (TU Delft)
12:15 – 1:15Lunch
1:15 – 2:00Click Gap isn’t Paternalist, Epistemic or Otherwise—And That’s a Good Thing
J. L. A. Donohue (Harvard)
2:00 – 2:45Autobiographical Thinking as a Pedagogical Tool: Envisioning oneself as a Protagonist of ethics
Omowumi Ogunyemi (Pan – Atlantic)
2:45 – 3:0015 minute break
3:00 – 4:15Keynote: C. Thi Nguyen (Utah)
4:15 – 4:3015 minute break
4:30 – 5:30Greater Boston Area AI Ethics Lightning Round
5:30 – 6:0030 minute break
6:00 – 8:00Outdoor Reception

June 3

TimePresenter
9:00 – 10:15Keynote: David Kaiser (MIT)
10:15 – 10:3015 minute break
10:30 – 11:15Biased-by-design: why algorithms are necessarily value-laden
Phillip Kieval (Cambridge)
11:15 – 12:00Examining Professional Social Responsibility Development among Computer Science Undergraduates Using the Generalized Professional Responsibility Assessment
Quintin Kreth (Georgia Tech)
12:00 – 1:00Lunch
1:00 – 1:45Violence and Cyber Violence
Kiran Bhardwaj (Andover)
1:45 – 2:30Educating for moral agency in an ethics of emerging technologies course
William Cochran (Harvard)
2:30 – 2:4515 minute break
2:45-3:30The Right to be an Exception in Data-Driven Decision-Making
Sarah Cen (MIT) & Manish Raghavan (Harvard)
3:30 – 4:15Avoiding harms or promoting the good? Two approaches to embedded ethics in computer science education
Avigail Ferdman (Technion)
4:15 – 4:3015 minute break
4:30 – 5:30Keynote: Alison Simmons, James Mickens, & Kathy Pham (Harvard)
5:30 – 5:35Closing remarks: Trystan Goetze (Harvard) & Kevin Mills (MIT)
5:35Conference ends