Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Design

Lorenzo Dalla Corte is a doctoral candidate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, and a legal researcher at TU Delft’s faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. He holds master degrees in law from LUISS Guido Carli and in law and technology from Tilburg University. His research is on privacy and data protection.

Dr. Bastiaan van Loenen is Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology’s faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, where he directs the Knowledge Centre Open Data. His research revolves around promoting the (re)use of information, geographic data in particular.

John C. Havens is Executive Director of The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems whose mission is to ensure every technologist is educated, trained, and empowered to prioritize ethical considerations in the design and development of autonomous and intelligent systems.  John was an Executive Vice President of a Top Ten PR Firm, a Vice President of a tech startup, and an independent consultant where he has worked with clients such as Gillette, Proctor and Gamble, Hewlett Packard, Wal-Mart, Ford, Allstate, Monster, Gallo Wines, and Merck.  He is also the Founder of The Happathon Project, a non-profit utilizing emerging technology and positive psychology to increase human wellbeing. John is also a regular contributor on issues of technology and wellbeing to Mashable, The Guardian, HuffPo and TechCrunch and is author of the books, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity To Maximize Machines and Hacking Happiness: Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World (both published by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House).  John is also Principal of Transitional Media Consulting.

John Sullins III (Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2002) is a full professor and Chair of philosophy at Sonoma State University. His specializations are: philosophy of technology, philosophical issues of artificial intelligence/robotics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, engineering ethics, and computer ethics. His recent research interests are found in the technologies of Robotics and AI and how they inform traditional philosophical topics on the questions of life and mind as well as its impact on society and the ethical design of successful autonomous machines.

Laurence Y. Devillers is a full professor of Computer Sciences at Paris-Sorbonne University, France. She does her research at LIMSI-CNRS and heads the team on “Affective and Social Dimensions of Spoken Interactions” working on machine learning, affective computing, spoken dialog system, human-robot interaction and on the ethical design of chatbot and empathetic and social robot. She is also member of the French Commission on the Ethics of Research in Digital Sciences and Technologies (CERNA-Allistene).  Prof. Devillers is member of the board of AAAC (emotion-research.net), member of IEEE, ACL and ISCA. She is an ISCA distinguished lecturer for 2017-18. She wrote a book “Des Robots et des hommes : mythes, fantasmes et réalité”, March 2017, (Plon ed., France). She is involved in the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems since 2016. She is now leading the IEEE SA – P7008 – Standard for Ethically Driven Nudging for Robotic, Intelligent and Autonomous Systems.

Sarah Spiekermann chairs the Institute for Management Information Systems at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna, Austria). She is author of the book “Ethical IT Innovation: A Value-based System Design Approach” and co-chairs the respective IEEE standardization effort P7000 (Model Process for addressing Ethical Concerns during System Design). In 2016 Sarah founded the Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab. Here, and in her institute privacy engineering and online disclosure behavior are – next to her work on ethical system design – core subject matters of research.

Sara Jordan has been an Assistant Professor of Public Administration in the Center for Public Administration & Policy at Virginia Tech. since August 2014. Prior to joining the Center for Public Administration & Policy faculty, Sara worked at University of Miami and University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Political Science from Texas A&M University–College Station in 2007.

Dr. M.V. (Virginia) Dignum is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management at TU Delft. She holds a PhD from the Utrecht University, in 2014. Previously, she worked for more than 12 years in consultancy and system development in the areas of expert systems and knowledge management. Her research focuses on value-sensitive design of intelligent systems and multi-agent organizations, focusing on the formalization of moral and normative behaviors and social interactions. In 2006, she was awarded the prestigious Veni grant from NWO (Dutch Organization for Scientific Research) for her work on agent-based organizational frameworks. She has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and several books, yielding a h-index of 27. She is secretary of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (IFAAMAS) and co-chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) in 2016.

Matthew Scherer is an attorney and legal scholar based in Portland, Oregon. He is an associate with Littler Mendelson, PC, and a member of the firm’s robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation practice group. Matt writes and speaks on the intersection of law and artificial intelligence and is the author of several articles, including “Regulating Artificial Intelligence Systems: Risks, Challenges, Competencies, and Strategies,” which was published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and “AI in HR: Civil Rights Implications of Employers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data,” which was published in the SciTech Lawyer. Matt also writes at Law and AI, a blog devoted to studying the emerging legal and policy issues surrounding artificial intelligence and autonomous machines.

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury is the 2nd Senior Principal at Accenture AI. Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Rumman’s work lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity working on cutting-edge applications of Artificial Intelligence and leading our Strategic Global Initiative on Responsible Artificial Intelligence. She serves on the Board of Directors for multiple AI startups and is an AI mentor for Katapult Accelerator, an impact tech accelerator in Oslo, Norway. She serves as a member of the IEEE’s Wellbeing Metrics Standard for Ethical Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems working group.