Stuart Jonathan Russell is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). He is a professor of computer science at the University of California,Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California,San Francisco. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California,Berkeley. He founded and leads the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley. Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the authoritative textbook of the field of AI:Artificial Intelligence:A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.
Robot ethics,sometimes known as "roboethics",concerns ethical problems that occur with robots,such as whether robots pose a threat to humans in the long or short run,whether some uses of robots are problematic,and how robots should be designed such that they act 'ethically'. Alternatively,roboethics refers specifically to the ethics of human behavior towards robots,as robots become increasingly advanced. Robot ethics is a sub-field of ethics of technology,specifically information technology,and it has close links to legal as well as socio-economic concerns. Researchers from diverse areas are beginning to tackle ethical questions about creating robotic technology and implementing it in societies,in a way that will still ensure the safety of the human race.
The ethics of artificial intelligence is the branch of the ethics of technology specific to artificially intelligent systems. It is sometimes divided into a concern with the moral behavior of humans as they design,make,use and treat artificially intelligent systems,and a concern with the behavior of machines, in machine ethics.
Machine ethics is a part of the ethics of artificial intelligence concerned with adding or ensuring moral behaviors of man-made machines that use artificial intelligence,otherwise known as artificial intelligent agents. Machine ethics differs from other ethical fields related to engineering and technology. Machine ethics should not be confused with computer ethics,which focuses on human use of computers. It should also be distinguished from the philosophy of technology,which concerns itself with the grander social effects of technology.
Francesca Rossi is an Italian computer scientist,currently working at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.
Pascale Fung (馮雁) is a professor in the Department of Electronic &Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science &Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science &Technology(HKUST). She is the director of the newly established,multidisciplinary Centre for AI Research (CAiRE) at HKUST. She is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for her “contributions to human-machine interactions”,an elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association for “fundamental contributions to the interdisciplinary area of spoken language human-machine interactions”and an elected Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for her “significant contributions toward statistical NLP,comparable corpora,and building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans”.
Mary-Anne Williams FTSE is the Michael J Crouch Chair for Innovation at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia (UNSW) based in the UNSW Business School.
Aimee van Wynsberghe is Alexander von Humboldt professor for "Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" at the University of Bonn,Germany. As founder of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab and director of the Institute for Science and Ethics,Aimee van Wynsberghe hosts every two years the Bonn Sustainable AI Conference.
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) was established to advance understanding of artificial intelligence (AI),robotics and related technologies with a special focus on crime,terrorism and other threats to security,with the goal of supporting and assisting UN Member States in understanding the risks and benefits of these technologies and exploring their use for contributing to a future free of violence and crime.
The Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) is a research center at the University of California,Berkeley focusing on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) safety methods. The center was founded in 2016 by a group of academics led by Berkeley computer science professor and AI expert Stuart J. Russell. Russell is known for co-authoring the widely used AI textbook Artificial Intelligence:A Modern Approach.
The regulation of artificial intelligence is the development of public sector policies and laws for promoting and regulating artificial intelligence (AI);it is therefore related to the broader regulation of algorithms. The regulatory and policy landscape for AI is an emerging issue in jurisdictions globally,including in the European Union and in supra-national bodies like the IEEE,OECD and others. Since 2016,a wave of AI ethics guidelines have been published in order to maintain social control over the technology. Regulation is considered necessary to both encourage AI and manage associated risks. In addition to regulation,AI-deploying organizations need to play a central role in creating and deploying trustworthy AI in line with the principles of trustworthy AI,and take accountability to mitigate the risks. Regulation of AI through mechanisms such as review boards can also be seen as social means to approach the AI control problem.
Anja Kaspersen is a director for Global Markets Development,New Frontiers and Emerging Spaces at IEEE,the world's largest technical professional organisation. Kaspersen is also a senior fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs where she co-directs the Artificial Intelligence Equality Initiative with Wendell Wallach. With scholars and thinkers in the field of technology governance,supported by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and IEEE,Kaspersen and Wallach provided a Proposal for International governance of AI.
Cansu Canca is a moral and political philosopher,with a Ph.D. specializing in applied ethics,and founder and director of AI Ethics Lab. Formerly,she was a bioethicist at the University of Hong Kong,and an ethics researcher at Harvard Law School,Harvard School of Public Health,Harvard Medical School,National University of Singapore,Osaka University,and the World Health Organization.
Beth Victoria Lois Singler,born Beth Victoria White,is a British anthropologist specialising in artificial intelligence. She is known for her digital ethnographic research on the impact of apocalyptic stories on the conception of AI and robots,her comments on the societal implications of AI,as well as her public engagement work. The latter includes a series of four documentaries on whether robots could feel pain,human-robot companionship,AI ethics,and AI consciousness. She is currently the Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College,University of Cambridge.
Latifa Mohammed Al-Abdulkarim is a Saudi Arabian computer scientist and professor working on AI ethics,legal technology,and explainable AI. She is currently an assistant professor of computer science at King Saud University and visiting researcher in artificial intelligence and law at the University of Liverpool. Al-Abdulkarim has been recognized by Forbes as one of the “women defining the 21st century AI movement”and was selected as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2020.
Katie Marie Atkinson is a professor of computer science and the Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering,Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. She works on researching and building artificial intelligence tools to help judges and lawyers. Atkinson previously served as the President of the International Association for AI and Law.
Kanta Dihal is a Dutch research scientist who works at the intersection of artificial intelligence,science communication,literature,and ethics. She is currently a lecturer in science communication at Imperial College London. Dihal is co-editor of the books AI Narratives:A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines and Imagining AI:How the World Sees Intelligent Machines.
Margot E. Kaminski is an American professor who works at the intersection of artificial intelligence,privacy,information governance,and online civil liberties. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School and the Director of Privacy Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law,Technology,and Entrepreneurship. Her research examines the impacts of new technologies,including autonomous systems,on individual rights to help shape policy and regulation of AI.
Tess Posner is an American social entrepreneur and musician best known for her work in artificial intelligence advocacy and ethics,focusing on increasing equity and inclusion in technology.
Alan Winfield is a British engineer and educator. He is Professor of Robot Ethics at UWE Bristol,Honorary Professor at the University of York,and Associate Fellow in the Cambridge Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He chairs the advisory board of the Responsible Technology Institute,University of Oxford.
