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Workshop: Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good

Beyond Principles and Policy Proposals: A framework for the agile governance of AI

Wendell Wallach

2019 Invited Talk Track 2
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Workshop: Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good

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Abstract

The mismatch between the speed at which innovative technologies are deployed and the slow traditional implementation of ethical/lethal oversight, requires creative, agile, multi-stakeholder, and cooperative approaches to governance. Agile governance must go beyond hard law and regulations to accommodate soft law, corporate self-governance, and technological solutions to challenges. This presentation will summarize the concepts, insights, and creative approaches to AI oversight that have led to the 1st International Congress for the Governance of AI, which will convey in Prague on April 16-18, 2020.

Speaker bio: Wendell Wallach is an internationally recognized expert on the ethical and governance concerns posed by emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and neuroscience. He is a consultant, an ethicist, and a scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, where he chairs the working research group on technology and ethics. He is co-author (with Colin Allen) of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, which maps the new field variously called machine ethics, machine morality, computational morality, and friendly AI. His latest book is A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control. Wallach is the principal investigator of a Hastings Center project on the control and responsible innovation in the development of autonomous machines.

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Wendell Wallach

Wendell Wallach has chaired Technology and Ethics studies for the past eleven years at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, is senior advisor to The Hastings Center, a fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and a fellow at the Center for Law and Innovation (ASU). His latest book, a primer on emerging technologies, is entitled, A Dangerous Master: How to keep technology from slipping beyond our control. In addition, he co-authored (with Colin Allen) Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong. The eight volume Library of Essays on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies (edited by Wallach) was published by Routledge in Winter 2017. He received the World Technology Award for Ethics in 2014 and for Journalism and Media in 2015, as well as a Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Ottawa in 2015-2016. The World Economic Forum appointed Mr. Wallach co-chair of its Global Future Council on Technology, Values, and Policy for the 2016-2018 term, and he is a member of their AI Council for the next two years. Wendell is the lead organizer for the International Congress for the Governance of AI (ICGAI), which will convene in April 2020.

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