The Ethics Of Generative AI: A Humanist’s Guide
In a brave new world filled with unattributed text, filtered images, remixed sounds, and bot-generated refurbished art, where do we find ourselves? Can we merrily maneuver through ChatGPT to generate all the written text we ever need, park on the Midjourney Discord server to gather all the art we might ever want to look at, and listen to endlessly sampled sounds that melt away into the void? How are we to find our moral bearings in a morass of an ai-generated reality? In this talk, I’ll walk through a framework around understanding various aspects of the ethics of moral philosophy, and then working backwards to understand where generative AI fits into this framework and whether we can find acceptable use cases for it.
Objective
Listeners will be able to discuss generative AI from within a universal moral framework, given various applications and testing use cases
Things Audience Members Will Learn
Where we have come from – a time line of Generative Ai
Where we are now – a viewpoint from the lens of an educator
Where we are going – a warning if we do not work through the moral philosophy of this new world
An overview of AI Ethics according to several groups
An outline of three aspect of classical moral philosophy and where we can place ourselves within it
bonus: a call to action
Target Audience
All curious learners
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Jen Looper
Head of Academic Advocacy, AWS Boston, USA
Jen Looper is the Head of Academic Advocacy at AWS with over 22 years’ experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile and web apps. A published author, Jen has written Computer Science for Kids, a textbook aligned to CSTA standards for grades 6-8, as well as the forthcoming The Illustrated AWS Cloud, both published by Wiley. She’s a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for web technologies, applied machine learning and discovering new things every day. With a PhD in medieval French literature, Jen’s area of focus is curriculum development and the application of sound pedagogy to technical topics. Visit Jen’s personal site at https://www.jenlooper.com.