AI, Democracy, and the Common Good

As many leading voices in debates about ethics and AI recognize, AI creates risks for democracy and we need to democratize AI. But what, exactly, are these risks, and what does it mean to democratize AI? Drawing on his forthcoming book Why AI Undermines Democracy And What To Do About It, Mark Coeckelbergh offers an overview of some of the risks and mobilizes the tradition of political-philosophical republicanism to argue that and why AI should be developed in a more participatory way and serve the common good, enabled by education and regulation that create possibilities for non-domination and communication.

The Institute for Ethics in AI will bring together world-leading philosophers and other experts in the humanities with the technical developers and users of AI in academia, business and government. The ethics and governance of AI is an exceptionally vibrant area of research at Oxford and the Institute is an opportunity to take a bold leap forward from this platform.

Speaker:

  • Professor Mark Coeckelbergh. Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Commentators:

  • Dr Zeynep Pamuk. Associate Professor in the Department of Politics & International Relations and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
  • Professor Isabelle Ferreras. Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. Professor of sociology at the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

Hosted by

  • Dr Linda Eggert. Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI,University of Oxford.

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