Building on the momentum of our Annual Lecture, Professor Jessica Riskin and distinguished commentators from various disciplines provided their perspectives on Professor Riskin's lecture. This was followed by a Q&A session with the audience, offering a unique opportunity for in-depth dialogue and engagement.
In Conversation with Jessica Riskin:
Annual Lecture:
- Read the Write-up of the annual lecture
- See the Recording of the annual lecture
The Institute for Ethics in AI will bring together world-leading philosophers and other experts in the humanities with the technical developers and users of AI in academia, business and government. The ethics and governance of AI is an exceptionally vibrant area of research at Oxford and the Institute is an opportunity to take a bold leap forward from this platform.
Every day brings more examples of the ethical challenges posed by AI, from face recognition to voter profiling, brain-machine interfaces to weaponised drones, and the ongoing discourse about how AI will impact employment on a global scale. This is urgent and important work that we intend to promote internationally as well as embedding in our own research and teaching here at Oxford.
Professor Jessica Riskin (Stanford University)
Jessica Riskin is Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University where she teaches modern European history and the history of science. Her work examines the changing nature of scientific explanation, the relations of science, culture and politics, and the history of theories of life and mind. Her books include The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick (2016), which was awarded the 2021 Patrick Suppes Prize in the History of Science from the American Philosophical Society, and Science in the Age of Sensibility (2002), which received the American Historical Association's J. Russell Major prize for best book in French history. She is a regular contributor to various publications including Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
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Dr Caroline Green is the Institute’s Director of Research and Head of Public Engagement. Caroline's research focuses on AI and human rights, specifically in the fields of health and social care. Caroline holds a LLB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Human Rights from the LSE, a MA in Investigative Journalism from City University and a PhD in Gerontology from King's College London. As Director of Research, Caroline also leads the Accelerator Fellowship Programme at the Institute.
Commentators
Dr David Storrs-Fox is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College. He is also a Lecturer in Philosophy at St Catherine's College and a Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology.
David received his PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where he also worked as a Lecturer. He was previously at Oxford, where he received a BPhil in Philosophy and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Before coming to the Institute he was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dr Reuben Binns is an Associate Professor of Human Centred Computing, working between computer science, law, and philosophy, focusing on data protection, machine learning, and the regulation of and by technology. Between 2018-2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI at the Information Commissioner's Office, addressing AI / ML and data protection. He joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Web Science from The University of Southampton in 2015.