AI: living and working with Artificial Intelligence

Lawyer Mark Deem of Cooley argues that questions of legal liability become impossible if we cannot switch off the machine. Deem wants to set clear limits on the role and responsibilities of robots and the humans who design, build and operate them.

Professor Joanna Bryson of the University of Bath replies that Artificial Intelligence is designed to work with humans, not against them: no emergency ‘off button’ required

Q&A will follow this discussion moderated by a representatitve from Future Intelligence. 

The impact of automation in the National Health Service Dr Vishal Nangalia, NHS England Clinician Entrepreneur and a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital against Dave Taylor, Imperial College, Trustees Board of the Patients Association

Why we must guard and legislate against human relationships with robots 

Dr Trudy Barber, course curator of Media & Digital Practice at the University of Portsmouth will be discussing the hot topic in AI - sex robots, deviation and innovation. She shares the stance that relationships with robots and AIs are inevitable with author of "Love and sex with robots" Dr. David Levy. She will be sharing an interesting viewpoint featuring media and fimography. 

In contrast Dr Kathleen Richardson, Senior Research Fellow in the Ethics of Robotics De Montfort University and leader of the Campaign Against Sex Robots discusses why she believes that we must maintain rigid boundaries between ourselves and the machine. 

Moderator: Jane Whyatt 

 

Cyber Security expert Mykko Hypponen, Harvard ethics expert and author Sheila Jasanoff, and lawyer Mark Deem discuss the issues that we will face over the next three years, the hurdles that we will have to overcome, the incidents that are likely to occur and the safeguards that will need to be put in place to ensure that the transition to a world controlled by AI will be in the interests of all and that any potential harmful effects are kept to a minimum.
The key questions that this discussion will debate will be:

• the necessity of cybersecurity to ensure that the data that the systems will work with is not corrupted.
• The issue of liability in a world where machines are increasingly making vital decisions.
• How the individual's rights will be protected in this new world, both in terms of privacy and whether it will be possible to assert the primacy of the individual in a world where people will increasingly find their lives determined by machines.