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SUMMARY:‘Responsible AI Futures’ Hybrid Seminar – Dr Peaks Krafft
DESCRIPTION:CREAATIF: Crafting Responsive Assessments of AI and Tech-Impacted Futures\nI will be presenting the first results and prospective policy directions of the BRAID Scoping project on which I am a co-investigator\, CREAATIF: Crafting Responsive Assessments of AI and Tech-Impacted Futures. This project was designed to engage with creative workers to co-develop impact assessments that address fundamental rights and working conditions in the context of generative AI. Through collaboration with several creative industry trade union and professional bodies we have sought to ensure workers have a voice in the development of these technologies and corresponding labour policy. I will be presenting the results of a series of co-designed workshops and surveys that we undertook\, and I will discuss our next steps and future aspirations. \n\n\n\n\nBio\nDr Peaks Krafft (they/them) is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh\, Co-Director of Edinburgh’s MSc Digital Sociology\, and Co-Investigator on the BRAID Scoping project CREAATIF: Crafting Responsive Assessments of AI and Tech-Impacted Futures. Prior to joining Edinburgh\, Dr Peaks launched the University of the Arts London Creative Computing Institute’s MA Internet Equalities and lectured in Social Data Science at the University of Oxford Internet Institute. Dr Krafft received their PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2017 and undertook postdoctoral work at the University of Washington Information School\, the University of California Berkeley Department of Psychology and the Data & Society Research Institute. Their publications cross AI\, cognitive science\, science & technology studies\, communications\, and sociology. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-dr-peaks-krafft
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:'Responsible AI Futures' Hybrid Seminar - Dr Christopher Burr
DESCRIPTION:Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance of Digital Twins\nWatch the recording now:\n\n \nDigital twins are virtual representations of natural\, engineered\, or social systems that can be dynamically updated with data from the physical twin (e.g. smart building\, ocean\, human heart) using a variety of sensory and techniques. The increasing use of ML and AI to enhance their predictive capacities\, inform decision-making\, and drive scientific insights demands critical investigation. The BRAID-funded Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance of Digital Twins (TEA-DT) scoping research project has engaged several researchers and practitioners of digital twins\, across the domains of health\, natural environment\, and infrastructure. In this presentation\, Dr Christopher Burr will discuss the results of this scoping research and introduce the TEA platform—an open-source and community-centred tool that helps project teams develop and communicate justifiable assurance that a digital twin realises key ethical properties. \n\n\n\n\nBio\nDr Christopher Burr is Senior Researcher in Trustworthy Systems at the Alan Turing Institute—the UK’s national institute for data science and AI. He leads the Innovation and Impact Hub as part of the Turing’s Research and Innovation Cluster in Digital Twins. He is also principal investigator of an AHRC/BRAID-funded project\, Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance of Digital Twins (TEA-DT). He completed his PhD in Philosophy of Cognitive Science at the University of Bristol. \n\n\n\n\nRunning Order \n16.00 – Welcome by Ewa Luger \n16.10 – Talk by Christopher Burr \n16.40 – Q&A \n17.00 – End \nIn-person: Inspace\, 1 Crichton St\, Newington\, Edinburgh EH8 9AB\nOnline: Zoom \nPlease note limited seats are available at Inspace for in-person audiences\, so please book tickets in advance. For those joining online please visit the online event page for the Zoom joining link and password. \nFor inquiries about accessibility\, please contact the DI team at designinformatics@ed.ac.uk or visit the Access webpage for more information about the venue: https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/venue-access/
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-dr-christopher-burr
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:‘Responsible AI Futures’ Hybrid Seminar Series – Bhargavi Ganesh
DESCRIPTION:Reframing Governance as Innovation: Steamboat accidents and their lessons for AI governance\nDespite the emergence of promising policy proposals worldwide\, AI governance is often discussed by policymakers and scholars alike as an intractable challenge. This is largely due to the technical/organisational complexity of sociotechnical AI systems\, and a fear that imperfect regulation will result in suppression of technological innovation. In this talk\, I will draw on the historical example of a previously “ungovernable” technology- the steamboat in the 1800’s- to challenge latent scepticism and argue that the governance of AI should in and of itself be viewed as an exercise in innovation. Steamboat governance was iterative\, requiring many instances of trial and error before achieving its aims. Similarly\, global AI governance can be reframed as an exercise in policy innovation. In doing so\, we can both celebrate the progress that has already been made\, and remain optimistic about the emergence of new regulatory interventions in response to novel challenges generated by AI. \nBio\nBhargavi Ganesh is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh\, working on mixed-method approaches for designing and evaluating the governance of AI. In the past year\, she has worked within the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) on a consultation for the Department of Science\, Innovation\, and Technology (DSIT)\, and interned within the former Centre for Data\, Ethics\, and Innovation. She is a member of the School of Informatics’ Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute and the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Centre for Technomoral Futures. Bhargavi is currently affiliated with the Regulation and Design Lab at the University of Edinburgh and the Governance and Responsible AI Lab at Purdue University. Prior to her PhD\, Bhargavi’s research focused on the impacts of consumer finance policies on marginalized groups. Bhargavi holds a Bachelor’s degree (with honours) from New York University and Master’s in Computational Analysis and Public Policy from the University of Chicago. \nX: @Bhargavi_Ganesh \n  \nWatch recording now:\n
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-series-bhargavi-ganesh
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:‘Responsible AI Futures’ Hybrid Seminar Series – Dr Emily Postan
DESCRIPTION:Uncanny Kinds\n  \nIn the fields of healthcare and health research\, there is particular interest using machine learning (ML) to generated novel or refined diagnostic\, prognostic\, risk\, and treatment categories. This talk interrogates the nature of these categories and their implications for the people thus (re)categorised. It approaches these questions through the lens of the philosophical idea of ‘human kinds’. It asks to what extent health-related categories generated by ML might function as human kinds and\, if so\, whether they might  differ\, in ethically significant ways\, from socially-originating kinds. In doing so\, it suggests that our understanding of responsible ML categorisation practices need to look beyond technical capabilities and clinical utility to consider wider personal and social impacts. \nBio\nEmily Postan is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Bioethics at the University of Edinburgh Law School and a Deputy Director of the J Kenyon Mason Institute for Medicine Life Sciences and the Law. Her research principally focuses on ethical questions about the relationship between our bodies\, our health\, and our identities\, and the ways that health technologies affect these relationships.  Her current research project ‘Identity by Algorithm’ explores the ethical implications of novel social categories generated by health applications of AI. Her wider research interests includes addressing the ethical challenges posed by data sharing\, neurotechnologies\, genomics\, and assisted reproduction. Emily has a background in philosophy and as a policy-manager at the Scottish Government. She received her PhD from Edinburgh Law School in 2017. Her monograph ‘Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation’ was published by CUP 2022. \nX: @emily_postan \nWatch the recording now:\n
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-series-dr-emily-postan
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:'Responsible AI Futures' Hybrid Seminar Series - Dr Fiona Smith
DESCRIPTION:Can artistic approaches help invite more voices into discussions about AI in Healthcare?\nThe potential benefits of utilising AI technology in healthcare are vast but there are important practical\, technological\, ethical\, and legal implications that need to be addressed in order to safeguard patients. Doctor\, AI researcher and artist Fiona Smith is particularly interested in how we can ethically curate the diverse datasets that are required to make accurate fair models. Smith will be talking about how these themes informed her latest exhibition “The BOX” which premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival. “The BOX” is the outcome of the Creator Residency ‘STEAM Imaging V’\, hosted by Fraunhofer MEVIS\, in collaboration with the Institute for Design Informatics\, the International Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen & the School Center Walle supported by Ars Electronica. \n\n\n\n\nBio\nDr Fiona Smith is a medical doctor and an UKRI funded PhD student in the Biomedical AI CDT\, School of Informatics\, University of Edinburgh. Alongside her research and clinical work\, she is interested in the use of artistic approaches to highlight complex medical\, ethical and social issues. \nFiona Smith LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-n-smith/ \nFiona Smith website: https://fionaniamhsmith.wixsite.com/ \nWatch the recording now:
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/braid-x-idi-hybrid-seminar-dr-fiona-smith
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:'Responsible AI Futures' Hybrid Seminar Series - Dr Elinor Carmi
DESCRIPTION:A Feminist Critique to Digital and AI Consent\nThis talk presents a feminist critique to digital and AI consent and argues that the current system is flawed. The online surveillance adtech industry that funds the web had to use a mechanism that commodifies people\, rendering their behaviors into data – products that can be sold and traded for the highest bidder. In this way\, digital consent serves as an authorizing and legalizing instrument to the business model of spying\, selling and trading people in the online ecosystem. This then helps to fuel the AI industry that uses these data as training data for the generation of text\, image and video. Using four key feminist approaches – process\, embodiment\, network and context – this talk argues that digital consent is a mechanism that transfers responsibility to people and enables exploitative-extractivist markets to exist. Consequently\, the broader educational effects of digital consent produces people as products with narrow agency and understanding. \n\n\n\n\nBio\nDr Elinor Carmi is a Senior Lecturer in Data Justice and Social Justice at the Sociology & Criminology Department at City University\, London\, UK. Dr Carmi is a digital rights advocate\, feminist\, researcher and journalist who has been working\, writing and teaching on data politics\, data literacies\, feminist approaches to media and data\, data justice and internet governance. Currently Dr Carmi works on the Nuffield Foundation project “Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard”. Dr Carmi’s work contributes to emerging debates in academia\, policy\, health organisations and digital activism. She was a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK’s Digital\, Culture\, Media & Sport Committee\, as well as gave evidence on Digital Literacy for the House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. In 2020\, Dr Carmi was invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an expert on data literacy and disinformation to the first scientific discussion on infodemiology. \nX – @Elinor_Carmi; \nMastodon – @drPinkeee@assemblag.es \nBluesky -@elinorcarmi.bsky.social \nWatch the recording now:
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/braid-x-idi-hybrid-seminar-dr-elinor-carmi
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:'Responsible AI Futures' Hybrid Seminar Series - Dr Bronwyn Jones
DESCRIPTION:What’s new in news? How AI is impacting journalism\nThe use of AI systems in newsrooms and across society is shifting the terrain in which journalism operates and changing what it means to make and consume news. We’re recommended personalised articles based on datafied readings of our behaviour\, while our clicks drive analytics that shape editorial decisions about what to report. Deepfakes and mis- and dis-information creep into our social news feeds and pose increasingly intractable verification challenges for journalists. From monitoring online sources\, to transcribing interviews and processing data for investigations\, AI-driven automation of rote tasks has become commonplace. However as news organisations rapidly adopt generative AI\, they are increasingly delegating core processes of communication and meaning making to machines. In this talk\, Bronwyn weaves together three strands of her current work which spans practice\, research\, and policy. She asks: what happens if we co-write the ‘first draft of history’ with AI? If we semi-automate this ‘cornerstone of democracy’? And how might we innovate responsibly with AI for journalism in the public interest? \n\n\nBio\nDr Bronwyn Jones is a social scientist and journalist. As a Translational Fellow for the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme\, she researches artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies in news production and their implications for the public sphere in democracies. As a DCMS Policy Fellow\, she is exploring the risks generative AI poses for journalism as an industry and form of knowledge production. At the BBC\, she covers regional news online and works with the research and development department to help newsrooms navigate technological change. Bronwyn is focused on fostering fruitful collaboration and translation between academia and industry; she works to ensure theory and evidence inform the development of public interest-driven socio-technical systems in the media industry\, and on-the-ground realities inform scholarly debate. \nX – @bronwynjo \n\n\nWatch the recording now:
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-series-dr-bronwyn-jones
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
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