The 1st Yale Workshop on AI, Ethics, and Society

Departments: Computer Science
Time: Friday, April 5, 2019 - 8:00am - 4:30pm
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Yale on York
150 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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The 1st Yale Workshop on AI, Ethics, and Society

Powerful AI systems, which are driven by machine learning tools, are increasingly controlling various aspects of modern society: from social interactions (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube), economics (e.g., Uber, Airbnb, Banking), learning (e.g., Wikipedia, MOOCs), to governance (Judgements, Policing, Voting). These systems have a tremendous potential to change our lives for the better, but, via the ability to mimic and nudge human behavior, they also have the potential to be discriminatory, reinforce societal prejudices, and polarize opinions. Moreover, recent studies have demonstrated that these systems can be quite brittle and generally lack the required robustness to be deployed in various civil/military situations.

These developments have given rise to a plethora of questions at the interface of computer/data science and classical disciplines such as philosophy, linguistics, economics, psychology, public health, and law. The goal of this intensive (one-day) workshop is to identify and discuss some of these emerging challenges from different viewpoints, brainstorm potential ways forward, and initiate a Yale-wide effort towards the goal of rethinking AI systems from a societal and humanitarian viewpoint.

Date: Friday, April 5, 2019
Venue: Yale on York (150 York St)
Admission to workshop is free of charge.

- Registration is limited to Yale-affiliated students/faculty/researchers.
- Registration is on a first come first serve basis and space is limited! We will open a waitlist when we hit capacity.

For more information and to register, visit https://aiethicsyale.wordpress.com/

Confirmed Participants:
Jack Balkin (Law)
Jeff Brock (Mathematics)
Tristan L. Botelho (School of Management)
L. Elisa Celis (Statistics and Data Science)
Molly Crockett (Psychology)
Thierry Emonet (Biology and Physics)
Emily Erikson (Sociology)
Julian Jara-Ettinger (Psychology)
Tamar Gendler (Philosophy, Psychology and Cognitive Science)
Alan S. Gerber (Political Science and Economics)
Mark Gerstein (Bioinformatics, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry)
Gerald Jaynes (Economics and African American Studies)
Shelly Kagan (Philosophy)
Amy Kapczynski (Law)
Noreen Khawaja (Religious Studies)
Issa Kohler-Hausmann (Law)
Balázs Kovács (School of Management)
John Lafferty (Statistics and Data Science)
Tracey L. Meares (Law)
Lisa R. Messeri (Anthropology)
Laurie Paul (Philosophy)
Dragomir R. Radev (Computer Science)
Brian Scasselati (Computer Science)
Dan Spielman (Computer Science, Statistics and Data Science, and Mathematics)
Zhong Shao (Computer Science)
Zoltan Szabo (Philosophy and Linguistics)
Nisheeth Vishnoi (Computer Science)
Wendell Wallach (Technology and Ethics)
Gideon Yaffe (Law, Philosophy, and Psychology)
Harry Zhou (Statistics and Data Science)