Policy for Artificial Intelligence: The Power of Imaginaries
18 December 2017
12:00 p.m. EST
Join IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) on 18 December 2017 at 12:00 p.m. EST for the third in a series of three free online events focused on Policy for Artificial Intelligence.
Policy for Artificial Intelligence: The Power of Imaginaries, will feature Konstantinos Karachalios (Managing Director, IEEE-SA; Member of IEEE Management Council), Nicolas Miailhe (Co-Founder and President, The Future Society; Harvard Kennedy School, Senior Visiting Fellow, Program on Science Technology and Society and member, the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and Cyrus Hodes, Director of the AI Initiative with The Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School. John C. Havens, Executive Director, The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, will moderate.
Imaginaries are, “collectively held, institutionally stabilized, and publicly performed visions of a desirable future, animated by shared understandings of forms of social life and social order attainable through, and supportive of, advances in science and technology” (Jasanoff & Kim; from Dreamscapes of Modernity).
If we want to have a positive future in regards to AI, we have to critically reflect upon our current imaginary in order to “imagine” a new one, and the policy and principles we need to attain it.