Spotlight Stage SPL153
AI Ethics - Theatre or Reality?
Date Thursday, Nov 28 Time – RoomPotsdam III
Every man, woman and their dog is setting up a group, board, council, whatever, on AI ethics. Donald will lay out the main positions from Pinker, through Dennet, Russell to Musk. AI may not be as good as you think or as bad as you fear and the danger is that the doomsaying actually prevents us from using AI for social goods like learning. Nevertheless there are some big issues to discuss, such as bias, privacy, surveillance, employment. Come see Max put Donald's feet to the coals in a discussion on AI ethics in learning.
Donald Clark
eLearning Expert and Strategist, Plan B Learning, UK
Donald is an entrepreneur, CEO, Professor, speaker and blogger. He was CEO and one of the original founders of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. Describing himself as ‘free from the tyranny of employment’, he now the CEO of an AI learning company WildFire, investor and Board member of PlanB learning, LearningPool and Cogbooks. He has been involved in consulting and implementing online learning in schools, FE, HE, corporate and government.
Donald has been involved in film, games, web, mobile, MOOCs, Oculus Rift and won many awards for the design and implementation of online learning. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, having delivered talks in the US, Europe, Far East, Middle East and Africa, and won several ‘Best speaker’ awards … also a regular (and controversial) blogger on online learning!
Links
http://www.planblearning.com/Bio/
Moderator
Maximilian Jarrett
Broadcaster and Strategic Communications Consultant, Germany
Maximilian Jarrett is an independent communications consultant,experienced international current affairs broadcaster, writer, and event moderator.
In the academic realm he is Honorary Fellow at Murdoch University, in Perth, Western Australia and also an Honorary Fellow at the Research Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility, at Leeds Business School and Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom.
Maximilian has three decades of experience in broadcasting, communications, public speaking and international affairs. In 2017 he was appointed as the final Director-in- Charge of the Geneva based Africa Progress Panel, which was chaired by Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General and Nobel Laureate. Between 2014 and 2017 he served as the Deputy Director.
Prior to his assignment to work directly with Kofi Annan in Geneva, he was responsible for international economic development policy coordination, high level conference event man- agement and communications at the United Nations Secretariat from 2001 to 2014.
Maximilian is passionate about engaging with and motivating audiences. He enhanced his skills in this area significantly during the eleven years (1990-2001) he spent working in London with the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service as a senior producer and well known presenter of Network Africa, a long running and Sony Award winning morning news and current affairs radio programme.
EDUCATION
BSc (Econ) Upper Second Class Honours, 1990, The London School of Economics, University of London MA, Area Studies (Africa) with Merit, 1996, School of Oriental and African Studies.