IE Talk in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes: The Next Decade of AI: Technical Possibilities and Ethical Responsibi

IE Talk and discussion in English, with simultaneous translation into Spanish. Cocktail reception at the end.

Description:

Join a fireside chat between IE University’s Prof. Ted Lechterman (UNESCO Chair in AI Ethics & Governance) and LMU Munich’s Dr. Ben Lange (Junior Research Group Leader in AI Ethics) for an interactive exploration of future developments in AI and the ethical challenges they create for students, professionals, and citizens. We’ll ask: What are AI agents, and what are the biggest opportunities and challenges they create for professional life? What are social care-giving robots, and can we humans have authentic friendships or romantic partnerships with them? From preserving Guarani and Quechua to enabling communication with animals, what prospects and dilemmas does AI create for human language and communication—with one another, and with other species? 

Agenda:

• 18:45-19:00: Registration
• 19:00-19:05: Welcome by IE University
• 19:05-20:35: IE Talk
• 20:35-21:30: Networking cocktail

Speakers:

Prof. (Spanien) Dr. Theodore “Ted” Lechterman holds the UNESCO Chair in AI Ethics & Governance at Spain’s IE University, where he is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. His scholarship spans political philosophy and applied ethics, focusing on artificial intelligence and democratic ideals, corporate responsibility in technology, and the ethics of private efforts to solve public problems. Ted was trained at Harvard (A.B.) and Princeton (M.A., Ph.D.) and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford, Goethe-Universität, Hertie School, and University of Oxford, where he was an inaugural fellowship at the Institute for Ethics in AI.

Dr. Benjamin Lange leads the Junior Research Group in AI Ethics at LMU-Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning. His research focuses on the ethics of AI and technology, foundational issues in normative ethics, and organizational and business ethics. Ben was trained at LSE (B.Sc.) and University of Oxford (B.Phil, D.Phil) and has been a research affiliate with The Uehiro Oxford Institute for Practical Ethics, LMU’s Zentrum für Ethik und Philosophie in der Praxis (ZEPP), and Google’s Responsible Innovation and AI Ethics team.