The Schwarzman Centre will open with a dayof celebrations and talks organised by the Cultural Programme and the Institute for Ethics in AI. The events are open to all and feature music, performance, visual display and presentations.
Panel Discussion: Is there such a thing as ethical AI?
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Location: Cinema
The Institute for Ethics in AI will bring together leading voices from journalism, academia, philosophy and industry, to explore what ethical AI might mean in practice. They will consider whether ethical principles can genuinely guide the development, use and deployment of AI, or whether tensions between innovation, incentives and accountability make ethical AI an aspiration rather than a reality.
Open to the public, this panel discussion invites visitors to engage with one of the most pressing questions shaping the future of technology and society.
Part of Open House, a free festival day of performances and events open to everyone.
Kenneth Cukier, Deputy Executive Editor, The Economist
Kenneth Cukier is deputy executive editor at the Economist, following two decades at the paper as a foreign correspondent, technology writer, data editor and commentary editor. He is the coauthor of the NYT bestselling book “Big Data” with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, which was translated into over 20 languages, and “Framers” on AI and mental models, with Viktor and Francis de Véricourt. Previously Kenn was the technology editor of the Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong and worked at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He was a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2002-04 and an associate fellow at Oxford’s Saïd Business School in 2018-23. Kenn previously served on the boards of directors of International Bridges to Justice and Chatham House. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ray Eitel-Porter, Senior Research Associate for Responsible AI, Intellectual Forum, University of Cambridge; former Global Lead for Responsible AI, Accenture
Ray is an expert in AI Safety and Ethics. As a pioneer in the field of Responsible AI, he worked on the first AI bias and fairness tool and also designed and built Accenture’s internal AI compliance program. He advises organisations across industries on how to use AI safely and responsibly: past projects included multi-year programs at a global bank, a global retailer and a major health brand. Ray has led ethical AI research collaborations with Stanford, MIT, The Alan Turing Institute and the Institute for AI Ethics at Oxford University.
Edward Harcourt, Director (Interim), Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Philipp Koralus, McCord Professor of Philosophy and AI, Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Amanda Stent, Head of AI Strategy and Research, Bloomberg
Amanda Stent is the head of AI Strategy & Research in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg. They have worked in several roles in industry and academia. Most recently, they served as inaugural director of the Davis Institute for AI at Colby College from 2021-2024. From 2016-2021, they served as NLP Architect in Bloomberg's Office of the CTO, a role in which they helped the company achieve and maintain technical excellence and broad applicability of NLP solutions, as well as architected and coordinated the development of new Bloomberg Terminal-based and Enterprise product offerings that use NLP. They previously held positions as Director, Research and Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo, as Principal Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Labs — Research, and as associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. Amanda holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester, has authored or co-authored over 100 papers on natural language processing, and is co-inventor on over 35 patents.