June 5, 11:15am
Location: Santa Clara I

Workshop Organizer: Ethical Challenges within Artificial Intelligence – from principles to practice

Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered an increasing number of different domains. A growing number of people – in the general public as well as in research and development – have started to consider a number of potential ethical challenges and other issues related to the development and use of AI technologies. The aim of this workshop is to briefly overview the global AI legislation landscape and introduce a range of ethical issues that need to be considered by data scientists, software development teams, industry professionals and academics and practically apply the consequence scanning toolkit to evaluate the impact of AI research ideas / new products and services on individuals and society. There is no specific prerequisite knowledge required.

Jim Tørresen is a professor at the University of Oslo where he leads the Robotics and Intelligent Systems research group. He received his M.Sc. and Dr.ing. (Ph.D) degrees in computer architecture and design from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Trondheim in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He has been employed as a senior hardware designer at NERA Telecommunications (1996-1998) and at Navia Aviation (1998-1999). Since 1999, he has been a professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo (associate professor 1999-2005). Jim Torresen has been a visiting researcher at Kyoto University, Japan for one year (1993-1994), four months at Electrotechnical laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan (1997 and 2000) and a visiting professor at Cornell University, USA for one year (2010-2011). His research interests at the moment include artificial intelligence, ethical aspects of AI and robotics, machine learning, robotics, and applying this to complex real-world applications. Several novel methods have been proposed. He has published over 200 scientific papers in international journals, books and conference proceedings. 10 tutorials and a number of invited talks have been given at international conferences and research institutes. He is in the program committee of more than ten different international conferences, associate editor of three international scientific journals as well as a regular reviewer of a number of other international journals. He has also acted as an evaluator for proposals in EU FP7 and Horizon2020 and is currently project manager/principal investigator in four externally funded research projects/centers. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) and the National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) where he is a member of a working group on research ethics for AI. More information and a list of publications can be found here: https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/jimtoer/index.html  http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jimtoer