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Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Dimensions of the Virtual World
10 February 2021 @ 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM EST
Free
Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to an online dialogue on “Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Dimensions of the Virtual World” during a side event for the Commission on Social Development, hosted by the Bahá’í International Community’s United Nations Office, the United Arab Emirates and NGO Committee on Social Development. The details for the event are:
The growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) raises fundamental questions about the type of societies we want to build and the kinds of lives they support. This online dialogue will explore vital questions of values, vision, ethics, and purpose with regard to AI, and ways that they are being addressed in social, technological, and political terms.
Panelists:
- Major Hamad Khatir, Director of International Partnership, Ministry of Interior of the United Arab Emirates
- Ms. Eline Chivot, Senior Adviser on Digital Policy for the European People’s Party
- Ms. Yu Ping Chang, UN representative on behalf of the Secretary General’s Special Advisor on Technology
- Dr. Douglas Allen, Associate Professor of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
Sincerely,
Daniel Perell
Representative to the United Nations
Bahá’í International Community
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