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<p>Colleagues,</p>
<p>the UCR Graduate Division is organizing a series of three webinars titled "Charting the Landscape of Ethical AI". The series is co-sponsored by the RAISE@UCR Institute and the Office of Research and Economic Development. The second webinar will be on February 21st, 9-10:30am.</p>
<p>Please find below details about the webinar and the Zoom info.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>V. Tsotras</p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;">Please join us for the next presentation in the 2024-2025 seminar series Charting the Landscape of Ethical AI.<span class="v1apple-converted-space"> </span></span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"> </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;">We are delighted to welcome Dr Bernd Carsten Stahl, Professor of Critical Research in Technology at the<span class="v1apple-converted-space"> </span><u><a title="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottingham.ac.uk%2Fcomputerscience%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw17wgNXBgxTb_bjRJVSqnA6" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottingham.ac.uk%2Fcomputerscience%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw17wgNXBgxTb_bjRJVSqnA6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong><span style="color: #954f72;">School of Computer Science</span></strong><span class="v1apple-converted-space"><strong><span style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: none;"> </span></strong></span></a></u>of the<span class="v1apple-converted-space"> </span><u><a title="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottingham.ac.uk%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw01fubRC84WumZq8MzHSCRh" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nottingham.ac.uk%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw01fubRC84WumZq8MzHSCRh" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong><span style="color: #954f72;">University of Nottingham</span></strong></a></u></span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"> </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;">Dr Carsten Stahl will be presenting<span class="v1apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>February 21<sup>st</sup>, 9-10:30am</strong>, on <strong>Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies</strong>.<span class="v1apple-converted-space"><strong> </strong></span><strong> </strong>Smart information systems (SIS) are systems that incorporate artificial intelligence techniques, in particular machine learning and big data analytics. These raise significant hopes, for example to better understand and cure diseases, but also to revolutionise transport, to optimise business processes or reduce carbon emissions. At the same time, they raise many ethical and social concerns, ranging from worries about biases and resulting discrimination to the distribution of socio-economic and political power and their impact on democracy. </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"> </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;">Drawing on the findings of the SHERPA project (<a title="http://www.project-sherpa.eu" href="http://www.project-sherpa.eu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #954f72;">www.project-sherpa.eu</span></a>), the presentation will suggest that one perspective to better understand these systems and their social and ethical consequences is to use the metaphor of an ecosystem to describe them, a metaphor already widely used in the policy discourse on AI. The talk will analyse what the use of the ecosystem metaphor means for the evaluation of ethical issues of smart information systems and which conclusions can be drawn from it and how these can inform recommendations for policymakers and other stakeholders. </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"> </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;">The presentation is based on the material developed in a book, which is freely available from:</span></em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"><a title="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-69978-9" href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-69978-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #954f72;">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-69978-9</span></a></span></em></strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"></span></p>
<p class="v1MsoNormal" style="caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #212121;"> </span></p>
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<p class="v1MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Copperplate; color: black; mso-ligatures: none;">Dena Plemmons, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p>
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