If predictions are correct, climate change is going to make the world a much less hospitable place in the next century. Given this, is it wrong to have children?
Check out the new episode from Open Questions: An Ethics Podcast @UofTEthics hosted by Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison, available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.
Ethics of AI in Context: Hector Levesque, Rethinking the Place of Thinking in Intelligent Behaviour
It seems clear that in people, ordinary commonsense thinking is an essential part of acting intelligently. Yet the most popular current approach to Artificial Intelligence downplays this thinking aspect and emphasizes learning from massive amounts of data instead. This talk goes over these notions and attempts to make the case that computers systems based even on extensive learning alone might have serious dangers that are not immediately obvious.
Hector Levesque
Computer Science
University of Toronto
Tue, Nov 7, 2017
04:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building
Check out the new episode from Open Questions: An Ethics Podcast @UofTEthics hosted by Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison, available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.
Check out the kick-off episode of Open Questions: An Ethics Podcast,@UofTEthics hosted by Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison, available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.
What role do personhood, respect, tolerance, and sympathy play in our relations to future AI developments? Do other concepts familiar from political-theoretic likewise apply, and if so, how? In this talk I will sketch some ideas for how to think productively about human-AI relations as their complexity advances in both the short- and long-term.
Mark Kingwell
Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto
Mon, Sep 25, 2017
04:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building
Presenting the members of the C4E Class of 2017-18: Visiting Scholars, Postdoctoral Fellows, Doctoral Fellows, and Undergraduate Fellows.
Stop by the Centre to say hi, meet them at one of our events, or–if you fancy a bit of the bubbly–join us for the reception following Sheila Jasanoff’s C4E Public Lecture on Ethical Futures: Imagination and Governance in an Unequal World, Sept, 29, 3-5pm (reception 5-6pm), at Munk’s Campbell Conference Facility.
Join us Tuesdays for … Movies, Ethics, Refreshments!
