International Symposium on Ethics in Information Technology and Robotics
© DWIH Tokyo
The rapid global advancement in information and communication technologies including AI impacts societies beyond borders. To enable responsible and ethical implementation of new technologies on a global level, international exchange and cooperation are crucial.
At a satellite symposium to the German-Japanese-French conference on “Generative AI: Pathways to Democratization, Transparency and Sustainability” two experts from Germany and Japan will introduce and discuss approaches toward the ethical use of AI.
Event Information
October 21, 2024, 5:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Faculty of Letters Main Bldg. Room 3, Kyoto University
Organizer(s): Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), DWIH Tokyo (German Centre for Research and Innovation Tokyo), Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics (CAPE), Kyoto University
Date: October 21, 2024 (Mo)
Time: 17:00 – 18:45 (doors open 16:30) Symposium / 19:00 – 20:00 Networking Reception
Language: English
Place: Faculty of Letters Main Bldg. Room 3, Kyoto University
Programme: Download
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Judith Simon, Professor for Ethics and Information Technologies, University of Hamburg
Profile / CV
Human-Machine-Relations: Challenges of Artificial Intelligence – The Opinion of the German Ethics Council on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
In my talk, I will give a brief overview and present key insights from a recent report by the German Ethics Council entitled: “Humans and Machines – Challenges of Artificial Intelligence”. The report, produced upon request of the German Parliament, focuses on the effects of AI in four different sectors: medicine, education, public communication, and public administration. A central notion for our normative assessment is human agency. Does the use of digital technologies and AI lead to an increase in the opportunities for responsible action and agency by the various stakeholders involved or to their reduction and (how) do these consequences differ for different actors? We argue that ethical deliberations about the right forms and extent of delegating activities and functions to software systems need to be specified in relation to the concrete contexts, applications and persons involved. Nonetheless, and in addition to sector-specific ethical recommendations, we also deduce ten cross-sectoral themes, which emerged in all sectors albeit in different ways.
Prof. Dr. Nobutsugu Kanzaki, Professor, Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, Department of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University
Profile / CV
Four Decades Since Moore (1985): What Was Computer Ethics and What Is AI Ethics?
In 1985, James Moore wrote a seminal paper titled “What is Computer Ethics?” In the four decades since then, as the use of ICT technologies such as the Internet, robotics, and generative AI has become increasingly widespread, so has the ethical debate surrounding these technologies. However, to what extent and in what ways have the ethical questions changed? In this talk, I will revisit Moore’s paper and the questions raised in it, and explore the questions we should ask today.