Speakers

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.

Danaher’s keynote speech presented on Wednesday the 6th of November  is entitled: “Do technologies disrupt moral paradigms?”.

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. Metsäranta is a member of the Nordic Ethical AI Expert Group and a participant in NATO von Karman Horizon Scanning on AI.

Metsäranta’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.