Science Pub Portland: Where Do Ethics Belong in AI?
With Dr. Houssam Abbas, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University.
October 1, 7-9PM | Doors @ 6PM | Advance tickets recommended; $5 suggested donation
The camera on-board a self-driving car switches to a power-saving mode and takes low-resolution images; as a result, the car hits a pedestrian. A mundane decision to save battery thus becomes a decision to value battery life over human life: all without anyone – or any thing – ever explicitly making that choice.
While we have long relied on software and automation, the prospect of a fully automated decision process charges many algorithmic decisions with a new, ethical, tension. Where do ethics (and the discipline of Ethics) belong in Artificial Intelligence? What occupies the ethicists and computer scientists working on AI today? And what are some of the approaches we might take – as engineers and as a community – to best leverage and evaluate AI developments?
Dr. Houssam Abbas is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. His research interests are in the verification and control of cyber-physical systems and formal ethical theories for autonomous agents, with particular emphasis on unpiloted ground and aerial vehicles. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2022, and participated in the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium of the National Academies of Engineering in 2022. Prior to OSU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and a design automation engineer at Intel.
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