Intention and Knowledge: The Conundrum of Civil Society's Role in Our Technological Future
This will now be a REMOTE session. Booking required.
For centuries, civil society’s role has been to advocate for, protect and advance the interests of the vulnerable. This responsibility is of particular importance during periods of deep societal transformation (industrial revolution, armed conflict, political unrest, structural economic adjustment). Today the rift between technological impacts on social, moral and economic relationships and civil society’s responsive capacity calls into question whether each of those functions of advocacy, protection and advancement can be effectively performed.

This seminar recaps the structural, strategic, and tactical challenges civil society faces in responding to AI-driven technology transformation. We then identify some early successes in developing systemic responses and lays out a promising path for co-creation of a technological future rooted in human interest.
Date: 9 November 2022, 13:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Vilas Dhar (Patrick McGovern Foundation)
Organiser contact email address: aiethics@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Linda Eggert (University of Oxford)
Part of: Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
Booking required?: Required
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Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Lauren Czerniawska