AI in Action Seminar
— 6:00pm
Location:
In Person
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ASA Conference Room, Gates Hillman 6115
Speaker:
MICHAEL SKIRPAN
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Assistant Teaching Faculty, Software and Societal Systems Department, School of Computer Science, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University
https://s3d.cmu.edu/people/core-faculty/skirpan-michael.html
Practical Ethics in Computing
Professor Michael Skirpan will discuss the pressing issues for practical ethics in computing given the recent explosion in AI applications. He will discuss trends that have led to a perceived "ethics crisis" in computing, and how AI has escalated the importance of this moment. He will then discuss a framework of mental habits for engineers he's been working on through his teaching and research here at CMU. He'll end with a lively interactive discussion about what it looks like to make meaningful progress in this area.
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Michael Skirpan is a jointly appointed Assistant Teaching Faculty in Carnegie Mellon's Software and Societal Systems and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments. At CMU, he focuses on ethics education for engineers and computer scientists and does research on approaches to governing and auditing computer systems to comply with ethical standards. He is additionally the executive director of Community Forge, a Pittsburgh-based non-profit focused on economic justice and building lasting relationships across Pittsburgh between communities that are siloed and segregated. He's an award winning playwright and an experienced industry consultant.
Hosted by the SCS AI Undergraduate Program.
Event Website:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ai-in-action/