Society & Ethics Team, NYCWiC & Lab News | SMN 21.02.06
A brief recap of this week’s Saturday Morning Neurosim (FEB 6), presented by Orthogonal Research & Education Laboratory
This week, Jesse Parent opened with a discussion about AI Ethics, including ethical frameworks and the inherent interdisciplinary reality and urgency around technology, ethics, and society. We considered the significance of exposure to these topics even if we are not experts therein ourselves (The PBS Wishbone Analogy), and how cross-expertise collaboration and exploration can help map or prospect holistic perspectives, affording valuable vantage points.
This served as suitable background for the Technology & Society Team’s Research Talk submission to New York Celebration of Women in Computing, with the working title “Towards a Sufficient Unified Ethical Frameworks for AI: Challenges & Opportunities.”
Congratulations on being appointed to Editor here at OREL, Daniela Cialfi! Also welcome to the lab, Minh Tran (Tech & Society) and Kateryna Voitiuk — great discussions in OREL slack with Morgan Hough about Neural Organoids.
We then noted or reviewed several lab manuscripts, including applications to ACM SIGCHI , NERCCS, CogSci 2021, ACM Collective Intelligence, and csv,conf,v6.
Also, several lab members have been participant at the Princeton Envision, which has this week been announced to take place virtually this year in April.
Stay tuned to their website for more updates and application information.
During paper reviews with Bradly Alicea, there was interesting examination of “costs” and how they shape development, both in biological reality and in computational modeling; fitness in computational environments tends to be more “goal driven”, which is an interesting contrast to biological evolution’s natural processes. This, of course, touches upon several aspects of OREL’s involvements, including the Reconstructing Cybernetics project.
Video Recording & Twitter Thread
Papers Mentioned & Highlights
See you next week!
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