Rethinking how to deal with contemporary AI: Ethics is not a ballast but a need

Event details

This event by the Centre for Business in Society will analyse the relationship between AI and ethics, and the potential impact of AI on society.

Abstract 

The AI field is living a new Spring. At the same time, both an incontrollable hype with exaggerated views about what is truly possible eclipses its advancements, and ethical concerns on the negative implications of AI technologies rise. However, the latter are the ones that are seen as obstacles for progress. This talk puts AI ethics where they belong.

Biography

Dagmar Monett is Professor of Computer Science at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Director of the Computer Science Dept. (April/2022–), Co-Director of the Master's study programme Digital Transformation (12/2020–), and Co-Founding Member of the Institute for Data-Driven Digital Transformation (d-cube). She is also a Mentor at the Startup Incubator Berlin; Co-founder of the AGI Sentinel Initiative, AGISI.org; AI expert at several international initiatives; Board member of the Berlin Federation of Professors, hlb LV Berlin e. V.; and professional member of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery.

With over 33 years of research and teaching experience in different countries, her current research fields include AI, digital ethics, AI ethics, software engineering, and computer science education, among others. Her most recent research work focuses on intelligence research, particularly on defining and understanding both machine and human intelligence. She is also interested in machine learning, robotics in education, metaheuristics, knowledge-based systems, and software design and development including Agile.

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