Wednesday, March 26th: Waide Center Seminar | Luciano Floridi: “AI and the Future of Content"

Luciano Floridi

Date: Wednesday, March 26th

Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Title: “AI and the Future of Content”

Zoom link: https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/95197924493

Event will be held remotely, via Zoom, and is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members.

About the Speaker: Luciano Floridi is the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University, where he is also a Professor in the Cognitive Science Program. He is also Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna. His research focuses on digital ethics, the ethics of AI, the philosophy of information, and the philosophy of technology. He has published over 300 academic papers and his most recent books in English include The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities (2023), The Green and the Blue: Naïve Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age (2023), The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design (2019), The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality (2014), The Ethics of Information (2013), The Philosophy of Information (2011), and Information: A Very Short Introduction (2010). Prof. Floridi has served as President of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Philosophy and Technology, and has been elected Gauss Professor by the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior, Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow of the European University Institute, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Professorial Fellowship of Exeter College, Oxford. He is also the recipient of numerous awards, distinctions, and honorary degrees. 

About the series: The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series is a forum for building community and advancing research in Applied Ethics. It encourages jargon-free and supportive discussions that will be accessible to participants with serious interest in applied ethics and who come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Invited speakers in the series present a work-in-progress or recently published paper on topics relevant to applied ethics. The seminars aim to provide speakers with feedback on their current research projects. At least half of each meeting is devoted to Q&A and general discussion. Please contact the Director of the Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Gregg D. Caruso, for more information.