The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI


 Humanities Center     Feb 21 2020 | 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM Crystal Cove Auditorium

6th annual conference of the Forum for the Academy and the Public
February 21, Crystal Cove Auditorium
Opening remarks, keynote, and keynote panel

Artificial intelligence is emerging as an important element in almost every aspect of human life. Yet little has been said or done about the overall implications of this huge leap forward in technology. How will electoral procedures be protected from interference? Can any semblance of individual privacy be preserved in democratic settings, let alone authoritarian ones? Even the simplest questions still plague us: will we be able to control the intelligent machines we’ve created? will they outwit us?; will we rely on them for the most important things? (hint: we already do). At the Forum for the Academy and the Public’s 6th annual conference, The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI, experts and thinkers of all kinds will come together to discuss these and other AI issues—for example, AI’s effects on climate, work, art, medicine, and war—and to help us understand what awaits the planet as humanity moves into a problematic technological future.

The Future of the Future: Ethics and the Implications of AI website

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3:30 pm – 5:15 pm Keynote: Bruce Sterling
Welcome Words: Song Richardson – Dean, UCI Law School
Conference & Keynote Speaker Introduction: Amy Wilentz – Literary Journalism Program, UCI; Conference organizer
Keynote Speaker: Bruce Sterling – science fiction writer, Professor of New Media and Science Fiction at The European Graduate School / EGS

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Keynote Panel: The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI
Moderator: Jeff Wasserstrom – Chancellor’s Professor of History, UCI; Conference Organizer
Bruce Sterling – science fiction writer, Professor of New Media and Science Fiction at The European Graduate School / EGS
Michele Goodwin – Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UCI
Paul Dourish – Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics, UCI
Kate Klonick – Assistant Professor of Law, St. Johns University Law School

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