The Ethics and Empirics of Engineering Humanity Speaker Series, Spring 2024

Co-sponsored by the David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance and Villanova Women in Tech

January 31
February 14
February 28
March 13
April 10

This interdisciplinary speaker series will cover ethical, philosophical and empirical issues surrounding the engineering of artificial and human intelligence. Those include the dynamic interactions between AI and HI, how human-computer-interfaces affect humanity, how humans outsource thinking to computers and other related technologies, how digital technologies transform the production, dissemination and validation of knowledge and how ethical values translate into technological and social decisions that affect who we are and who we’re capable of being.

For further information, please contact the series organizers:
Brett Frischmann, The Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova Law
Georg Theiner, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University and Editor, Social Epistemology

 

Wednesday, January 31
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Blank Rome LLP Classroom (Room 102) | John F. Scarpa Hall

"From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Emotion: The Ethics, Business and Politics of Affective Computing"
Frank Pasquale
Professor of Law, Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech

 

Wednesday, February 28
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Blank Rome LLP Classroom (Room 102) | John F. Scarpa Hall

"Data Infrastructures and the Politics of Ignorance"
danah boyd
Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University 

 

Wednesday, March 13
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Blank Rome LLP Classroom (Room 102) | John F. Scarpa Hall

"Person, Thing, Robot" 

David Gunkel

Professor of Media Studies, Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University

 

Wednesday, April 10
4:00–6:00 p.m.

Robert A.J. Barry Classroom (Room 303) | John F. Scarpa Hall

"Do Humans Have an Obligation to be Machine Readable?"

Helen Nissenbaum
Professor of Information Science & Director of Digital Life Initiative, Cornell Tech

 

Postponed, please check back for more information

Lewis H. Gold ’62 Lecture on Ethics & Professional Responsibility presented by the David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance 
"Two AI Truths and a Lie"
Woodrow Hartzog
Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law