A Centre for Complexity Science Seminar.
This talk is divided into two sides: the dark side and the less dark side.
On the dark side, we consider the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Digital Transformation, and observe that despite the plethora [sic] of ethical guidelines, design methodologies, international standards, and even international regulation, AI is still being used, and is going to be used, as a tool for abstracted power and abnegated responsibility. It will consider a range of threats in the form of “Untrustworthy AI”, which can potentially bringing about democratic backsliding, or a kind of “digital feudalism”, and even diminish the very essence of “being human”.
Then, on the less dark side, we discuss our attempts to offer an alternative approach, including modelling work that connects insights from political science with algorithms from computer science to address contemporary political challenges, a methodology for operationalising socio-technical systems in the public interest, and technology for ethical platformisation and social re-empowerment.