Side Event of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

Questions to be addressed:

• How is the current wave of AI innovation likely to impact poor countries?

• What policies may improve the capacity of developing countries to benefit from AI innovation?

• Do you really want a computer to make ethical decisions like you do or should they follow purely logically a set of fixed rules?

• If human beings have even occasional minor moral weaknesses; from whom should an autonomous artificial intelligence learn its ethics?

Panellists:

• Mike Hinchey, President of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Chair of IEEE UK & Ireland and President of the Irish Computer Society.

• Chrisanthi Avgerou, Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Don Gotterbarn, Researcher and promoter of professional computing practice, author of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.

• David Kreps, Reader in philosophy of information systems at the University of Salford, UK.