Lecture and conversation with philosopher Shannon Vallor

Reclaiming Our Humanity in Times of AI

Radboud Reflects

Klik op één van de tijden en koop je tickets:

ma 30.09

  1. LUX 7 20.00 Koop

Tickets ma 30.09

    1. LUX 7 20.00 Koop

Lecture and conversation with philosopher Shannon Vallor

Reclaiming Our Humanity in Times of AI

Radboud Reflects

ma 30.09

  1. LUX 7 20.00 Koop Externe Tickets

Reclaiming Our Humanity in Times of AI

Radboud Reflects

About Reclaiming Our Humanity in Times of AI

Artificial Intelligence is in many ways a reflection of ourselves, for better or for worse. When we feed AI-algorithms with imperfect or biased data, they inevitably feed our faults back to us. But can AI also be used to boost humanity’s greatest strengths? Come listen to philosopher Shannon Vallor and see AI in a new light.

Overcoming flaws
We as humans have always strived to overcome our limitations, weaknesses and flaws. Some think of the arrival of AI as the perfect tool that will finally enable humanity to do just that: achieve equality, justice and liberation from all kinds of ailments. AI could open our minds to new possibilities. It can be a way to help us grow, both intellectually and morally.

Reproduce flaws
Some, on the other hand, see AI as one of the greatest threats to humanity. After all, AI that is made out of a huge amount of data is bound to reproduce the same errors we’ve always made. On the horizon is not liberation, but an endless cycle of humanity’s worst mistakes playing on repeat.

Rear view mirror
Will we ever be able to trust AI to help us unleash humanity’s full potential, or will it only ever be a flawed rear view mirror that reflects who we have always been? Or is the truth somewhere in the middle? That is the question that philosopher Shannon Vallor set out to answer in her latest book The AI-Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Come and listen to Shannon Vallor, and join her in rethinking what AI is, can be, and what we want it to be. Philosopher Nina Poth moderates the discussion.

Over de spreker

Shannon Vallor is filosoof van technologie en kunstmatige intelligentie aan de Universiteit van Edinburgh. Ze doet onderzoek naar de ethiek van kunstmatige intelligentie en robotica, data-ethiek, ethiek van automatisering, cross-culturele digitale ethiek, toegepaste deugdethiek en wetenschapsfilosofie. In haar laatste boek The AI-Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, onderzoekt ze de manieren waarop AI menselijke fouten kan weerspiegelen en herhalen en de mate waarin dit kan worden vermeden.

Over Radboud Reflects

Wil je meer kennis en een verdiepende blik op de actuele thema’s? Kom dan naar de publiekslezingen van Radboud Reflects. Gedreven wetenschappers geven op een toegankelijke manier de nieuwste inzichten over bijvoorbeeld politiek, duurzaamheid, AI, psychologie en je favoriete film of serie. Vorm je eigen mening met inspirerende denkhandvatten bij een avond uit met inhoud.

Ontdek ons programma

Wat drijft tradwives?

Wie is Judith Butler?

Tipping Points. Useful or Disturbing?

History for Tomorrow. Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity