The Emergence of Intelligent Machines: Challenges and Opportunities
CIS Seminar Series
The development of Artificial Intelligence ( AI) technology is accelerating. A range of transformative innovations now appear likely within the next decade, including self-driving cars, real-time speech-to-speech translation, fully automated image recognition, and autonomous robots. These technologies will have a substantial level of both autonomy and intelligence. Several of the world’s most prominent intellectual and technology leaders, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, have recently suggested careful consideration of the potential impacts of intelligent machines on society. This seminar series considers this issue from a range of perspectives, including machine ethics (Should an autonomous vehicle swerve to save several people at the cost of endangering the life of its passenger?), human labor and employment (Will AI systems cause massive unemployment?), autonomous decision-making (Will an AI decide if you get a loan? Or get an operation?), as well as concerns about the potential emergence of superhuman intelligence (Will a super-AI work for our benefit?).
Lectures are on Monday evenings, 7:30 -- 8:30 PM in Room 155, Olin Hall.
Free and open to the public. This series is sponsored by Workday.
Schedule
02/27 – Bart Selman, Cornell: The Future of AI: Benefits vs. Risks
03/06 – Jon Kleinberg, Cornell, Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness
03/13 – Kilian Weinberger, Cornell: Human-Interpretable Machine Learning
03/20 – Dan Weld, Univ. of Washington: Computational Ethics for AI
03/27 – Moshe Vardi, Rice Univ.: Humans, Machines, Work: The Future is Now
04/03 – spring break
04/10 – no lecture
04/17 – Karen Levy, Cornell: Working with and Against AI
04/24 – Ross Knepper, Cornell: The Ethics of Robotics
05/01 – Joe Halpern, Cornell: Morality: In Search of Formal Definitions