Let's Chat Ethics

This week we were joined by Victoria Vassileva who is the Sales Director at Arthur. In this episode we get into Victoria's experience on working with organisations across sectors to combat ethical challenges and risks and more specifically how at Arthur they are solving this with regards to large language models (LLMS). We also approach the topic of the media hype surrounding AI being sentient and why this takes attention away from the real risks and ethical issues that are happening today.

Victoria's bio & contact info:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvassileva/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/hellovictoriav?lang=en-GB

Victoria Vassileva (she/her) is the Sales Director at Arthur. She has spent over a dozen years in and around data, starting as an analyst programming in SAS before transitioning to the GTM side. She now works to help complex organizations bring operational maturity and Responsible and Trustworthy practices to AI/ML initiatives across industries. At Arthur, Victoria focuses primarily on partnering with F100 enterprises to bring comprehensive performance management and proactive risk reduction and mitigation across their entire AI production stack. She is deeply motivated by the opportunity to shift industry practices to a "front-end ethics" approach to place equity and fairness considerations at the forefront of machine learning and automation projects. She holds degrees in Mathematics and French from the University of Texas at Austin.

This week, we welcome the innovative Ruth Ikwu, an AI Ethicist and MLOps Engineer with a solid foundation in Computer Science. As a Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Research of Europe, Ruth delves into AI Security, Ethics and Trust, playing a role in crafting innovative and reliable AI solutions for cyberspace safety. In this episode, she educates us on the evolving landscape of online sex work, discussing how platforms like AdultWork, OnlyFans and PornHub inadvertently facilitate sex trafficking. This is a heavy topic and contains a lot of distressing information about sex trafficking, Ruth's work is extremely important in bringing forward accountability.

To learn more about Ruth's work on identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market -

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12117-021-09431-0

Connect with Ruth -

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-eneyi-i-83a699118/

In this episode we are joined by Paul Röttger who is CTO & Co-Founder at Rewire and completing his PHD at Oxford University in NLP. Paul chats to us about the challenges of tackling hate speech online and why he decided to pursue this challenge in his PHD as well as how he started Rewire. More recently, Paul was part of an expert team that were hired by OpenAI to 'break' ChatGPT4 called the 'red team', he explains what this involved and how it aimed to solve some of the dangers of ChatGPT4.

If you want to connect with Paul -

Twitter - https://twitter.com/paul_rottger?lang=en

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-rottger/

The Philosophers Takeover!! This is the first in a new monthly series led by Alba Curry who is a Philosophy Professor at the University of Leeds. Alba will be joining us (as well as other special guests of her choice) once a month to do a philosophical deep dive of different episodes we have covered throughout the series. Our special guest this week is Maddy Page who is a PHD student at the University of Leeds focusing on the Philosophy of Art. In this episode Maddy covers the ontology of artwork and why its important.

Alba - https://www.linkedin.com/in/albacurry/

Maddy - twitter @madeleinesjpage

This weeks episode Oriana and Amanda discuss Sentient Robots and AI News, where we explore the latest news in AI including the famous 'Letter' signed by Elon Musk.

As AI technology advances, we are witnessing the emergence of 'sentient robots' - machines that are claimed to be experiencing emotions, developing personalities, and even exhibiting creativity. In this podcast, we explore sentient robotics and examine their potential impact on society, culture, and the economy.

So whether you're a technology enthusiast, industry professional, or just curious about the future of robotics and AI, tune in to the Sentient Robots and AI News episode for thought-provoking discussions and insights into the world of sentient machines.

(*)This description was written using chatGPT and some human editing skills. 

This week we are joined by Marc van Meel who is an AI Ethicist and public speaker with a background in Data Science. He currently works as a Managing Consultant at KPMG, where he helps organizations navigate the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.

In this episode we get into the future of technology in our society, AI auditing, the upcoming AI regulation and of course ChatGPT!

To contact Marc:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-van-meel/

The start of a series of Responsible AI chats with Toju Duke! 

Toju is a popular keynote speaker, author, and thought leader on Responsible AI. She is a Programme Manager at Google where she leads various Responsible AI programmes across Google’s product and research teams with a primary focus on large-scale models. She is also the founder of Diverse AI, a community interest organisation with a mission to support and champion underrepresented groups to build a diverse and inclusive AI future. She provides consultation and advice on Responsible AI practices.Toju’s book “Building Responsible AI Algorithms” is available for preorder.

In this episode we focus on why Responsible AI is important to Toju, her work at Google as a Responsible AI Programme Manager and her new venture Diverse AI. 

To learn more about Toju: www.tojuduke.com

To learn more about Diverse AI: www.diverse-ai.org

*Trigger warning* this episode we recognise includes some harmful prejudices that people with disability face and this can be upsetting for some listeners.

In this episode we are joined by Tess Buckley whose primary interests include studying the intersection of AI and disability rights, AI governance and corporate digital responsibility, amplifying marginalised voices in data through AI literacy training (HumansforAI), and computational creativity in music AI systems (personal project).  Our conversation covers topics across ableism in biotechnology and society as a whole and how disability is represented in datasets. We are hooping this episode opens more dialogue as often people with disabilities are not included in conversations around bias.

Connect with Tess on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tess-buckley-a9580b166/

Older and wiser, Oriana and Amanda are back to chatting ethics after a hiatus!

In this episode, we dive into the world of AI and the technology behind it. Meet ChatGPT, a large language model developed by OpenAI, and learn about its capabilities, limitations, and potential impact on our daily lives. From language generation to answering complex questions, we'll discover how ChatGPT works and how it's being used to enhance human capabilities. Join us as we engage in a conversation with Prof. Dirk Hovy to understand the ethical implications and the future of this rapidly advancing technology. Get ready to be amazed and informed as we explore the fascinating world of AI. 

(*)This description was written using chatGPT and some human editing skills. 

This week Alba and Amanda discuss a new book called How Humans Judge Machine by Cesar A. Hidalgo. 

Get the book on: https://www.judgingmachines.com/

Eric Schwitzgebel's Aiming for Moral Mediocrity: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/MoralMediocrity.htm

The puppy cartoon: https://images.app.goo.gl/C4zKG5hsfE6419Ra6