Tentative programme
Day 1 (Wednesday 6th of November)
| @ Paidia Living Lab of Play, Nokia Arena (Kansikatu 3, 33100 Tampere) | |
| 8:30-9:00 | REGISTRATION
@ Paidia |
| 9:00-9:15 | OPENING WORDS
Organisers |
| 9:15-10.15 | SESSION 1: PRIVACY AND THE GDPR
Smoke Screens and Scape Goats, the Reality of General Data Protection Regulation Compliance — Privacy and Ethics in the Case of Replika AI (Joni-Roy Piispanen, Tinja Myllyviita, Ville Vakkuri & Rebekah Rousi) Blockchain, AI and Personal Data: Conflicts and Convergences under the GDPR (Alessandro Billi) |
| 10:15-10:30 | BREAK |
| 11:30-12:30 | SESSION 2: PLATFORMS AND BIG TECH POWER
Systemic Power of the Digital Platforms versus Human Lifeworld (Jani Koskinen & Salla Westerstrand) AI Ethics Capitalised by Big Tech. Reflections on the Rising of Political Tech Ethics (Jaana Parviainen) |
| 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30-14:30 | KEYNOTE SPEECH
[Title TBA] John Danaher (NUI Galway) |
| 14:30-14:45 | BREAK |
| 14:45-16:15 | SESSION 4: ETHICS AND AI
Monitoring Machine Learning Systems from the Point of View of AI Ethics (Kai-Kristian Kemell, Jukka K. Nurminen & Ville Vakkuri) What is an AI vulnerability, and why should we care? Unpacking the relationship between AI security and AI ethics (Lauri Tuovinen & Kimmo Halunen) Ethical Issues in Large Language Models: A Systematic Literature Review (Atte Laakso, Kai-Kristian Kemell & Jukka Nurminen) |
| 16:15-16:30 | BREAK |
| 16:30-17:30 | SESSION 5: AUTOMATION AND AUTONOMY
Addressing Deskilling as a Result of Human-AI Augmentation in the Workplace (Firuza Huseynova) AI is a Trojan Horse — A Rationale (Dominik Schlienger) |
| 19:00- | SOCIAL PROGRAM
Conference dinner (more information provided later). |
Day 2 (Thursday 7th of November)
| 8:30-9:00 | MORNING COFFEE |
| 9:00-10:30 | SESSION 6: DESIGN AND ETHICS
On the discontents of the instrumentalist framework in technology assessment (Johanna Ahola-Launonen) Super-intelligent society for the silver segment: Ethics in design (Jaana Leikas, Rebekah Rousi, Hannu Vilpponen & Pertti Saariluoma) Towards Just Smart City: Community-based art organisations as partners in design justice (Aida Kalender, Giovanni Sileno & Sennay Ghebreab) |
| 10:30-11:00 | BREAK WITH POSTERS |
| 11:00-12:00 | KEYNOTE SPEECH
Sustainable AI – from principles to practice Anna Metsäranta (Solita) |
| 12:00-13:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:00-14:00 | SESSION 7: TECHNOLOGY, ETHICS AND EDUCATION
Data privacy, ethics and education in the era of AI – A university student perspective (Rebekah Rousi, Hanna-Kaisa Alanen & Anne Wilson) Embedding responsible AI in technical education curriculum: A case study in asynchronous online advanced data analytics course (Rhoda Abadia) |
| 14:00-14:15 | BREAK |
| 14:15-16:00 | INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
The current state and future of technology ethics education in Finland (Ville Vakkuri, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Lauri Tuovinen & Tero Vartiainen) |
| 16:00-16:30 | CLOSING WORDS AND FEEDBACK SESSION
Organisers |
| 16:30- | POST-CONFERENCE SOCIAL PROGRAM
Join us for sauna, drinks, and food! More information provided later. |
Keynote speakers
John Danaher (NYU Galway)
Danaher’s research focuses on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies and the future of human society. He is the author of Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (Harvard University Press, 2019) and the coeditor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press 2017). He has published over fifty papers on different topics, including the risks of advanced AI, the ethics of social robotics, meaning of life and the future of work, and the ethics of human enhancement, His work has appeared in The Atlantic, VICE: Motherboard, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sunday Times, Aeon, and The Philosophers’ Magazine. Danaher also maintains a blog called Philosophical Disquisitions, produces a podcast with the same title, and writes for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
Anna Metsäranta (Head of Sustainable AI at Solita)
Anna Metsäranta leads Solita’s work on practical approaches to responsible use of AI. Drawing from her background in Economics, Operations Research, and Computer Science, combined with her passion for the human aspects of sociotechnical systems, she drives an interdisciplinary approach to managing the complex impacts of AI. She works with senior leaders in high risk domains to help organisations harness the power of AI responsibly and sustainably. Anna is a member of the Nordic Ethical AI Expert Group and a participant in NATO von Karman Horizon Scanning on AI. Anna’s keynote speech “Sustainable AI – from principles to practice” discusses the meaning and importance of AI sustainability as well as components of sustainable AI at scale, illustrating the discussion with case examples from industry.