Welcome to the first out of four webinars arranged by WARA Media this spring. Speakers in this event is Professor Virginia Dignum and Dr Andreas Theodorou.

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Abstract 

Ensuring ethically-aligned AI systems requires more than designing systems whose result can be trusted. It is about the way we design them, why we design them, and who is involved in designing them. This talk is about ensuring that we put in place the social and technical constructs that ensure that responsibility and trust for the systems we develop and use in contexts that change and evolve. Rather than putting the responsibility and blame on the AI application itself, it is the socio-technical system of which the applications are part of that must bear responsibility and ensure trust.

Bio Virginia Dignum

Virginia Dignum is professor of responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, associated with the TU Delft in the Netherlands, and the CTO and co-founder of VeRAI AB. She is the director of WASP-HS, the Wallenberg Program on Humanities and Society for AI, Autonomous Systems and Software. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, a Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence Association (EURAI), member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, of the working group on Responsible AI of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), of the World Economic Forum’s Global Artificial Intelligence Council, of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Initiative on Ethically Aligned Design, and founding member of ALLAI-NL, the Dutch AI Alliance. Her book “Responsible Artificial Intelligence: developing and using AI in a responsible way” was published by Springer-Nature in 2019.

Bio Andreas Theodorou

Dr. Andreas Theodorou is a research fellow at the Responsible AI Research Group at Umeå University and the CEO and co-founder of VeRAI AB. He is working at producing techniques and tools for the design, implementation, and deployment intelligent systems, while taking into consideration the socio-economic, legal, and other ethical issues and challenges that arise from integrating AI into our societies. In parallel to his research, Andreas is an active member of various AI Governance initiatives (e.g. IEEE SA’ P7001 series, ISO JTC1/42, BSI ART/1) and of AI Ethics boards (e.g. ROXANNE project). Theodorou has previously held research and teaching related positions at the University of Bath (UK), Georgia Institute of Technology (GA, USA), and University of Surrey (UK).

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