The Institute for Ethics in AI and the Oxford Martin School were pleased to host an event featuring a keynote address by distinguished economist Professor Daron Acemoğlu, followed by commentary from expert panellists.

Keynote Lecture: 'Redesigning AI' with Professor Daron Acemoğlu
Hosted and introduced by Professor John Tasioulas, Director, Institute for Ethics in AI.

This talk argues that the current path of AI is inimical to human flourishing. Nevertheless, different institutional arrangements, ethical underpinnings, and technological vision can lead to better AI. This better AI path will need to overcome the industry's excessive focus on automation, the centralised control of information, challenges in the context of human-AI mis-alignment, and the disappearing diversity of information among human actors.

The keynote lecture was followed by commentary from expert panellists, hosted by Ekaterina Hertog, Associate Professor in AI and Society, Oxford Internet Institute.

Panellists:
Professor Isabelle Ferreras, FNRS Professor in Sociology at the University of Louvain, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford.

Professor Josiah Ober, The Markos & Eleni Kounalakis Chair in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis and Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University

Dr Daniel Susskind, Research Professor in Economics at King's College London and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University

Professor Carl Frey, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Work; Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute