Ethics & Politics of AI Panel
October 15th, 11:00am-12:00pm, Emerson Hall 135
This panel will discuss how ethical and political considerations that arise from deployment of AI systems, including such topics as the potential for bias and inequitable impacts of automation, accountability for the efforts of AI systems, public policy implications of this developing space, and how best to even approach these questions.
The Panelists
Amelia ArsenaultAmelia C. Arsenault is a PhD student at Cornell University’s Department of Government in the International Relations subfield, with a minor in Comparative Politics. She previously obtained her master’s degree from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, where her research into the effects of AI on disinformation efforts received funding from the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship as well as the Department of National Defense Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) Scholarship. She has been published in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, International Studies, and the Paterson Review of International Affairs, and is currently working on a co-authored chapter on AI and international politics for an upcoming Oxford handbook.
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Kate DonahueKate Donahue is a fourth year computer science PhD candidate at Cornell, advised by Jon Kleinberg. She works on algorithmic problems relating to the societal impact of AI, such as fairness, human/AI collaboration, and game-theoretic models of distributed learning. Her PhD has included internships at Microsoft Research and Amazon and has been supported by an NSF fellowship.
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Dr. Thomas GilbertThomas Gilbert is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative. He recently served as the inaugural Law and Society Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He is also a research affiliate with the Center for Human-Compatible AI, and cofounder of GEESE. Previously, he earned an M.A. in sociology from Berkeley and an M.Phil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge.
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The Moderator
Dr. Shaun Nichols
Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Cognitive Science at Cornell University. His research concerns the psychological underpinnings of philosophical thought. He is the author of Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment, Bound: Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, and Rational Rules: Towards a Theory of Moral Learning, and he has published over 100 articles in academic journals in philosophy and psychology.
