Shaping the Future of AI through Cultural Diversity
The third edition of the roundtable on ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), organized on 26 March 2021, focused on the role of cultural diversity in shaping the future of AI.
How can cultural diversity and the multiplicity of ethical frameworks shape the future of AI? How do the different values embraced in each culture, such as specific views and relationships with nature and with technology could contribute to the shaping of tomorrow’s AI? What are the challenges to be overcome when establishing a global ethical framework for AI?
The roundtable was moderated by Peter-Paul Verbeek (The Netherlands), Professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente, and Chairperson of UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST).
Invited speakers were:
Sheila Jasanoff (United States), Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government;
Jason Edward Lewis (Canada), University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary and Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University, Montreal. Co-director of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group;
Shoko Suzuki (Japan), Professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education.
This event is part of a series of roundtables launched by UNESCO in 2018 to sensitize policy-makers, researchers and the general public on the ethical implications of AI.
The third edition of the roundtable on ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), organized on 26 March 2021, focused on the role of cultural diversity in shaping the future of AI.
How can cultural diversity and the multiplicity of ethical frameworks shape the future of AI? How do the different values embraced in each culture, such as specific views and relationships with nature and with technology could contribute to the shaping of tomorrow’s AI? What are the challenges to be overcome when establishing a global ethical framework for AI?
The roundtable was moderated by Peter-Paul Verbeek (The Netherlands), Professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente, and Chairperson of UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST).
Invited speakers were:
Sheila Jasanoff (United States), Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government;
Jason Edward Lewis (Canada), University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary and Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University, Montreal. Co-director of the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group;
Shoko Suzuki (Japan), Professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education.
This event is part of a series of roundtables launched by UNESCO in 2018 to sensitize policy-makers, researchers and the general public on the ethical implications of AI.
