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Wednesday, May 16 • 14:30 - 15:45
Artificial Intelligence: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and Peace Time Threats

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We are on the verge of one of the greatest paradigm shifts in human history. Research on Artificial Intelligence is enabling humanity to create autonomous intelligent software agents that can currently perform and learn new tasks without human guidance, observation or intervention, supplanting humans in decision­ making processes. This is already the case for military weapons platforms know as Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) that can kill and destroy a target without human intervention. There are however also a plethora of peace time uses and risks of autonomous agents including potential mass disinformation, criminal profiling and the potential management of population amid resource scarcity to name a few. The panel aims to address some of the following questions:
" What if fake news and internet trolls are generated by increasingly autonomous software?
" Would autonomous criminal profiling turn the presumption of Innocence upside-down?
" If code represents the law of cyberspace, and computer software potentially interferes with citizens' rights and integrity, shouldn't their use be regulated by a democratic process?
" The language of human vs. machine decision-making: are we blurring important distinctions?
" Do we have a moral duty not to create 'intelligent' systems that could potentially become a risk for humanity?

This session is organized by the ICT for Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology, Switzerland, as part of an on-going process of looking at AI, LAWS and Peace-time threats

Moderators
avatar for David Kirkpatrick

David Kirkpatrick

Editor-in-chief, Techonomy Media
David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, author, and founder of Techonomy Media. Its conferences gather leaders to discuss how tech changes everything. Techonomy 2018 is Nov. 11-13, 2018 in Half Moon Bay, California. In 2016, Mark Zuckerberg made there his notorious remarks about fake news... Read More →

Speakers
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Todd Davies

Academic Research and Program Officer, Stanford University
I am a social scientist whose work over the past 17 years has focused on the relationships between digital technologies, group deliberation, rights and freedoms, and democratic decision making. Previous work focused on machine learning and knowledge representation in artificial intelligence... Read More →
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Kyle Dent

Research Area Manager, PARC
I am an AI researcher and data scientist studying the interplay between people and technology. I lead research and innovation projects and am interested in technology and society, intelligent conversational agents, and complex systems.
avatar for Maarten Van Horenbeeck

Maarten Van Horenbeeck

Board Member, FIRST.Org, Inc.
Maarten Van Horenbeeck is Board Member and former Chairman of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). He also works as Chief Information Security Officer for Zendesk. Prior to this, he managed the Threat Intelligence team at Amazon and worked on the Security teams... Read More →


Wednesday May 16, 2018 14:30 - 15:45 EDT
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