Keynote talk on “Civic Agency in AI” for an event on Ethics x AI organized by the Goethe–Institut Finnland with excellent panels and workshops at the Think Lounge in the University of Helsinki. I presented about ethical AI practices and our new research initiative on “Citizen Agency in AI? Democratizing Algorithmic Services in the City”, supported by the Kone Foundation.

ETHICS x AI: Putting Ethical AI into Practice

13.5.2022 10AM–4PM, Tiedekulma, Yliopistonkatu 4, Helsinki

Artificial Intelligence plays an elementary role in science, business, and society, but what are the ethical foundations or political frameworks for its implementation? How can ethical principles be integrated into algorithms? How unprejudiced is machine–translated literature? Where does AI influence our legal and healthcare systems?   

These questions and many more were discussed with well–known experts — and with our guests. Our public event brings together discourses and practices from different fields — science, business, politics, culture, faith — and wants to advance them together with a broad audience. Our speakers come from the following organizations and companies: Hybrid CoE — European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, Microsoft Finland, Reaktor, Aalto University, Friedrich–Alexander–Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, and many more.

Opening Program:
10.00  Welcome & Opening @Stage
10.05  Keynote: The Power to Foresee Society, an Imperative for AI Systems Accountability / Maxime Lebrun
10.30  Keynote: Merciful Community in the Age of AI / Dr. Taina Kalliokoski
10.50  Keynote: Civic Agency in AI? / Prof. Dr. Nitin Sawhney
11.10  Keynote: Is there Business in AI Ethics? / Meeri Haataja
​11.30  Panel Discussion​ @Stage

The organizers: ETHICS x AI is a joint event of AHK Finnland (German–Finnish Chamber of Commerce), the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Helsinki, the German Evangelical–Lutheran Congregation in Finland and Goethe–Institut Finnland. The event is supported by the foundation Aue–Stiftung.

ETHICS x AI is a discussion platform across national borders and fields of knowledge. The organizers bring together international experts from science, business, politics, culture, and faith as well as discourses from Germany and Finland. 

Event website:
https://www.ethicsx.ai/save-the-date-ethics-x-ai-putting-ethical-ai-into-practice/

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