Ethics in AI Colloquium with Frank Pasquale: Machines Judging Humans
Ethics in AI Live Event: Machines Judging Humans
Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute for Ethics in AI
Live Event: Thursday 6th May 2021, 5.00pm-6.00pm
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Machines Judging Humans - full event details to follow.
Speaker:
Frank Pasquale is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and machine learning. He is presently Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Before coming to Brooklyn, he was a chaired professor at the University of Maryland (Piper & Marbury Professor of Law) and Seton Hall University (Schering-Plough Professor of Health Care Regulation & Enforcement). His widely cited research has been featured in top law reviews, and he has advised governmental officials on cutting edge issues in law & technology regulation.
Pasquale’s latest book, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (Harvard University Press, 2020) analyzes the law and policy influencing the adoption of AI in varied professional fields. The book was a finalist for the American Association of Publishers PROSE awards (in the legal studies and criminology category). It attracted favorable notices from Wired and the Financial Times, and will soon be available in Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Spanish, and Italian. Pasquale has also co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Pasquale’s book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015), has been recognized internationally as a landmark study on information asymmetries. It is cited in fields ranging from law to computer science to sociology to literature. The book develops a social theory of reputation, search, and finance, while promoting pragmatic reforms to improve the information economy. The journal Big Data & Society hosted an interdisciplinary symposium on The Black Box Society in 2020, to mark the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication.
Commentators:
Helen Mountfield QC
Helen Mountfield joined Mansfield College in 2018. Helen is an experienced and award-winning barrister, with over 26 years of expertise in constitutional law, human rights and equality law, including particular experience of the higher education sector. She has appeared in many cases in the Supreme Court, European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights, and recently featured on the ‘First Hundred Years’ website, which celebrates the history of women in law. Helen is a founder member of Matrix Chambers, an accredited mediator, a Master of the Bench of Gray’s Inn, a Recorder and a deputy High Court Judge.
Helen also plays an active role in public policy. She was co-chair, with Tom Watson MP, of the Independent Commission on the Future of Work in the Digital Economy; a member of the Royal Society of Arts’ Commission on Drugs Policy; and part of the Disability Rights Commission’s review of barriers to access to the professions. She is a trustee of the Institute for the Future of Work, the Equal Rights Trust and the National Campaign for the Arts, and has been a school governor.
Helen went to Crown Woods School in south-east London (which, by coincidence, is one of Mansfield’s partner schools). From there she read Modern History at Magdalen College Oxford, where she obtained a first-class degree, directed plays and was one of the first ‘Target Schools’ officers. She is married to Dr Damian Tambini, a political scientist at the London School of Economics, and they have three school-age daughters.
Professor Michael Wooldridge
Michael Wooldridge is Head of Department and Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at Hertford College - previously he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool for twelve years. In 2020, he was awarded the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society, and in 2006, the recipient of the ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award. He is an ACM Fellow, a AAAI Fellow, a EURAI Fellow, an AISB Fellow, a BCS Fellow, and a member of Academia Europaea.
Michael served as President of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) from 2015-17, President of the European Association for AI (EurAI) from 2014-16, and President of the International Association for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) from 2007-09. He was program chair for the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010), held in Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2010. I was Conference Chair for the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2015), held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 2015. In 1997, Michael founded AgentLink, the EC-funded European Network of Excellence in the area of agent-based computing and in October 2011, was awarded a 5-year ERC Advanced Grant, entitled "Reasoning About Computational Economies" (RACE).
Between 2003 and 2009 he was co-editor-in-chief of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. He is also associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (2006-2009, 2009-2012), an associate editor of Artificial Intelligence journal (2009-2012) and serve on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence.
Michael has written two popular science introductions to AI: the Ladybird Expert Guide to Artificial Intelligence, a short overview in the iconic British book series, and The Road to Conscious Machines, a longer introduction to AI in Penguin's classic Pelican series. Both books are aimed a general audience.
Chaired by John Tasioulas, the inaugural Director for the Institute for Ethics and AI, and Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He was previously the inaugural Chair of Politics, Philosophy & Law and Director of the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London. Professor Tasioulas has degrees in Law and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a D.Phil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He was previously a Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow, Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he taught from 1998-2010, and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. He has also acted as a consultant on human rights for the World Bank. He has published widely in moral, legal, and political philosophy.
Find out more about the full Institute for Ethics in AI programme here.
