Radboud University
Artificial Intelligence is in many ways a reflection of ourselves, for better or for worse. When we feed AI-algorithms with imperfect or biased data, they inevitably feed our faults back to us. But can AI also be used to boost humanity’s greatest strengths? Learn from philosopher Shannon Vallor and see AI in a new light.
Monday 30 September 2024 | 20.00 – 21.30 hrs | LUX, Nijmegen | Radboud Reflects, Radboud Centre Social Sciences, SIAC, School of Artificial Intelligence and Workgroup The Human Factor in New Technologies. See announcement
Artificial Intelligence is in many ways a reflection of ourselves, for better or for worse. When we feed AI-algorithms with imperfect or biased data, they inevitably feed our faults back to us. But can AI also be used to boost humanity’s greatest strengths? Come listen to philosopher Shannon Vallor and see AI in a new light.
We as humans have always strived to overcome our limitations, weaknesses and flaws. Some think of the arrival of AI as the perfect tool that will finally enable humanity to do just that: achieve equality, justice and liberation from all kinds of ailments. AI could open our minds to new possibilities. It can be a way to help us grow, both intellectually and morally.
Some, on the other hand, see AI as one of the greatest threats to humanity. After all, AI that is made out of a huge amount of data is bound to reproduce the same errors we’ve always made. On the horizon is not liberation, but an endless cycle of humanity’s worst mistakes playing on repeat.
Will we ever be able to trust AI to help us unleash humanity’s full potential, or will it only ever be a flawed rear view mirror that reflects who we have always been? Or is the truth somewhere in the middle? That is the question that philosopher Shannon Vallor set out to answer in her latest book The AI-Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Come and listen to Shannon Vallor, and join her in rethinking what AI is, can be, and what we want it to be. Philosopher Nina Poth moderates the discussion.
This progamme is in English.
Shannon Vallor is a philosopher of technology and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. She researches the ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics, data ethics, ethics of automation, cross-cultural digital ethics, applied virtue ethics and philosophy of science. In her latest book, The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, she explores the ways AI can reflect and reiter
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