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Smart assistants such as Siri or Alexa, facial recognition to unlock your phone, self-driving cars, and weaponized drones. Artificial intelligence (AI) is not the stuff from science fiction anymore: it is becoming part of our daily lives and most common technological solutions. AI systems like these have the capacity to plan and initiate actions with some degree of autonomy. But what happens if humans give a part of the control over the system, to the system itself? What if a self-driving car causes a lethal crash, or a chatbot turns sexist and racist? Who is responsible for (un)wanted outcomes of AI systems?In this Filosofisch Café, philosopher and AI-researcher Giulio Mecacci will discuss moral responsibility and meaningful human control over AI systems. Mecacci will explore why controlling intelligent artificial systems is hard for us, why giving up responsibility might not be a good idea, and what it might mean to be meaningfully in control of autonomous intelligent systems (an apparently paradoxical endeavour).

The interviewer of this evening is philosopher Ajuna Soerjadi, who specializes in data, ethics and AI. She is also a musician, and she will perform a song on her piano that is written especially for this theme. At the end of the evening, the floor is open for debate and questions from the audience.

This event will be hosted at Café ‘t Haantje (Daalseweg 19 in Nijmegen). Entrance fee ranges from 3 to 5 euros, depending on what you can pay and can miss. We start at 20:00h, have a break in between, and finish at 21:30. Afterwards you can of course stick around for a beer.

See you there!