Seminar Ethics X AI

Expert seminar

Finland and Germany are among Europe’s leading countries in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Germany has been conducting research in this field since the 1980s and is home to the world’s largest AI research centre. Finland’s national AI strategy sees artificial intelligence as a national competitive advantage, the online course ‘Elements of AI’ has appealed over 120,000 participants and attracted worldwide attention.

The Finnish chairman of the EU High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, Pekka Ala-Pietilä, has set ethics issues as a central development point in Europe. For Germans, the protection of privacy and the avoidance of total control has always been a high priority for cultural and historical reasons.

However, the discussion on ethics and morality in the AI has so far been mainly conducted in silos: programmers and companies discuss among themselves, moral philosophers discuss among themselves, regulators discuss among themselves. On the one hand, we will bring the discourses of both countries together; on the other hand, we will link the different perspectives and groups.

The Goethe-Institut Finnland, the German Congregation in Finland and the German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce (AHK Finland) are organizing the expert seminar in Helsinki on October 2nd 2019 to bring together the discourses in both countries and between science, business and church.

The seminar is supported by Aue-säätiö. 

Program

9.00 – 11.00 
Stage.Talk — Keynotes @ Think Stage, Tiedekulma

• 9.00 
  Opening by the German Ambassador​
• 9.10
  Intro by the moderator Petri Malmelin
• 9.12 
  Keynote Maija-Riitta Ollila: ‘Artificial intelligence and ethics’
• 9.50 
  Keynote Johan Himberg
• 10.10 
  Keynote Mario Brandenburg: ‘ETHICS x AI in Germany’
• 10.30 
  Podium with all

11.00 – 12.00 Lunch break

12.00 – 15.00 
Expert Workshops @ Think Lounge, Tiedekulma
 

• 12.00 
  Aku Visala: ‘AI and free will—who is responsible?’
• 12.20 
  Frank Mathwig: ‘Ethics in Human Enhancement’
• 12.40 
  Fireside Chat with Michael Laakasuo & Johan Himberg
• 13.00 
  Networking, pause
• 13.20 
  ​Workshop tables, topics:

1. ‘Technical solutions for Ethics in AI’ —host Meeri Haataja
2. ‘Preventing Bias in AI’ —host Saara Hyvönen
3. ‘AI and the future of Work’ —hosts Hertta Vuorenmaa and Johan Himberg
4. ‘Human enhancement and Human Self–Understanding’ —hosts Aku Visala and Frank Mathwig
5. ‘What could possibly go wrong?’  —host Michael Laakasuo

• 14.40 
  Closing (moderator & organisers)
• 15.00 
  ​End of seminar

Register here!

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