IWE in 2 minutes with Prof. Dr Aimee van Wynsberghe
🔸 ABOUT AIMEE 🔸
Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bonn in Germany.
Aimee is director of the Institute for Science and Ethics and the Bonn Sustainable AI lab.
She is co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI.
She is a founding editor for the international peer-reviewed journal AI & Ethics and member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Artificial Intelligence and Humanity.
She is author of the book “Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design, and Implementation” and is regularly interviewed by media outlets.
In each of her roles, Aimee works to uncover the ethical risks associated with emerging robotics and AI. Aimee’s current research, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, brings attention to the sustainability of AI by studying the hidden environmental costs of developing and using AI.
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🔸 ABOUT THIS VIDEO 🔸
This is the second Sustainable AI conference organized by the Bonn Sustainable AI lab at Bonn University’s Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE). The focus of the first conference in June 2021 was to create a community of researchers in the space of Sustainable AI and to raise awareness on the topic. The second conference focused on cross cultural perspectives to address the variety and scope of ethical issues on a global scale. An inspiration for this theme is to acknowledge the reality that certain countries play an integral role in the early production phase and the waste management but may never experience the benefits of AI.
🔸 CONFERENCE PLAYLIST 🔸
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🔸 ABOUT THE IWE 🔸
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Hi, my name is Aimee van Wynsberghe, I’m from Canada and you’re watching the IWE in 2 minutes. We’re here at the Bonn Sustainable AI Conference. This is the second conference that we’ve done, the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab. This conference is called “Sustainable AI across borders”. We have 94 speakers
Who are here with us, we have 27 countries represented and we’re having an absolutely fantastic time. We have panels looking at the sustainability of AI, AI for sustainability, AI in gender, AI in social justice, AI in agriculture and a variety of other topics that we’re addressing.
We’ve had some incredible keynote speakers so far. We started off the conference with a keynote from Professor Caesar Atuire who talked to us about decolonizing AI, what does this mean, what does this look like and how can we achieve it really taking in the entire life cycle of AI development
And rethinking how we’re creating this technology. We also had a fantastic keynote presentation by Benedetta Brevini and she encouraged us to use our imaginations to think beyond the use of a AI to solve the climate crisis and to think maybe there’s other technologies or other ways that we
Can do this that don’t involve the creation of a technology that actually contributes to the climate crisis. We also had a wonderful fireside chat with Jan Kleijssen, former director of the Council of Europe and he explained to us what the Council of Europe is doing in this space, that the Council of
Europe is creating a treaty on AI to protect human rights, to protect citizens that are in need of protection when it comes to AI usage across nations. He also explained to us how this is different from the European Union’s tool, that that tool the AI Act is really meant as a market
Driven regulation but that the Council of Europe is really focused on the protection of Human Rights. We also had two other fantastic keynote speakers: Ulises Mejias who talked to us about AI and the tragedy of the commons and Shannon Vallor who talked to us about bootstrapping sustainable
AI, how to reclaim technology for humane futures. Both of these keynotes were incredibly inspiring, encouraging the audience and society to take control over these technologies for our futures. It’s been an absolutely incredible 3 days with networking and academic fruitful discussions.
Thank you so much to everyone who was here and participated both in person and online. Thank you so much to everyone who was involved in the organization, especially the Humboldt Foundation who was supporting financially the organization of the conference. You can find a link to the
Conference playlist in the video description below. If you like this video feel free to give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications for future videos.