London Tech Week: AI engineering - an ethics job?

Name: London Tech Week: AI engineering - an ethics job?
Start: 2022-06-15T16:00:00
End: 2022-06-15T17:30:00
Location: techUK, 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD

4pm – 5.30pm 15 June 2022 techUK office techUK, 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD

Join us at London Tech Week 2023
London Tech Week (12-16 June) is a global celebration of tech, uniting the most innovative thinkers and talent of tomorrow in a week-long festival. Showcasing how tech is transforming business and society, London Tech Week drives thought provoking conversations around innovation, diversity and transformation, providing a platform for the tech ecosystem to come together to drive change.

techUK will be running a number of fringe events throughout the week, click on the links below for more information:

6 June: Tech Policy Leadership Conference 2023
7 June: Launch of the DSIT Portfolio of AI Assurance Techniques
12 June - International Telecoms Conference – In Partnership with DSIT
13 June - How can the energy sector leverage digitalisation for long-term energy resiliency?
14 June - Recruiting top talent as an SME
14 June - UK-Vietnam Tech Workshop
14 June - Report Launch: State of the Connected Home 2023
14 June - What makes the West Midlands a leading UK location For Emerging Tech?
15 June - Connected cars in London – the key to a smart city?
15 June - Tech Trade and Sustainability Conference
15 June - Supporting SMEs to partner with System Integrators

Following his thought-provoking 2021 Reith lectures, this event will provide an opportunity to dive deeper into one of the conditions Stuart Russell argues is necessary for a harmonious human-AI future: that AI researchers see as inherent to success that their outputs are provably beneficial to mankind. But in an industry where teams or oversight boards focusing specifically on ethics are becoming more common, is it realistic to expect AI researchers and engineers to assess the ethical implications of their work as well?

Join us for an exclusive opportunity to dive deeper into this question with one of the world's greatest thinkers on AI alongside a panel of industry experts. Participants will have the opportunity to contribute to a discussion where we'll also ask whether it is helpful to talk about 'ethical AI' at all, or if we should rather think of it merely as AI that works as it ought to. We will try to identify which skills AI researchers need to evolve if their role is to be inherently tied to societal benefits and what kind of training and organisational incentives would encourage such a shift.

The discussion will be followed by an opportunity to network in the techUK offices.