Your use of AI does more harm than good

What to expect?

Artificial Intelligence….. A technology with a powerful reputation for generating unforeseen outcomes…. but also for doing the opposite!

Given our living memory experiences of the unforeseeable impacts of  the internet and then social media – how are we to trust this thing, or at least mitigate the risks? How much of what we hear is hype, how much of it melodrama? What are the frontiers of the “things we haven’t thought of”?

This debate will bring together a panel of diverse experience and thinking around AI and its implementation in the real world.  Specific questions will be highlighted within the sweeping title and gaps in our capacity to answer these questions acknowledged. Questions such as:

• Does the well worn axiom that technology is just a neutral tool still apply?
• How will AI impact creativity, empathy, accountability?
• Can we even begin to map the potential issues around good and harm that will come up? How will we define good and harm?
• Where does the responsibility lie in the implementation process? Can regulation or guidelines even help? What does good leadership look like?

The audience will also have the opportunity to make short statements on the things that feel important to them, and to pose questions themselves.

The format will, in a sense, model the content……  adhering to the parameters and yet learning what works and what doesn’t as it proceeds.

Why join this session?

AI tools will almost certainly impact how you live your life and business activities if they haven’t already – with someone else taking major ethical decisions that decide how. If you want to take ownership of your own impact you need to understand those decisions.

Sooner or later (if not already) you will need to make decisions about how to use AI – the ethical handholds for dealing with that might be outside your current frameworks.

In a very real way – “the problem is the problem” – there’s so much information and opinion out there, maybe this will help you prioritise what to process.

What are the key outcomes?

This session will not spend a lot of time on power consumption and the trolly problem, unless someone has something revolutionary to say.

This session will provide insight into the current thinking on the ethics surrounding AI implementation.

The expectation is that it will raise some issues that are currently outside your awareness, and perhaps give you a chance to raise some of your own.

It’s entirely possible that it will raise more questions than it answers – we will, perhaps, be engineering the prompts and posing data structure questions around AI and ethics and setting up your processing.

Capacity

100 spaces available

Session hosted by

Shankar Velupillai, The Hive Consultancy

Confirmed Speakers

Adam Wojsa, Founder at Numlabs

Andrew Tilling, Founder at The Hive Consultancy