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AI Ethics and Governance Symposium

October 7, 2024
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center 

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Agenda

 

8:45-9:00 a.m.      Welcome and Overview

9:00-10:00 a.m.     Session 1: Health and Medicine

Moderated by Alexis Battle, PhD
Interim Co-Director of the Data Science and AI Institute
Johns Hopkins University

9:00-9:10 a.m.     State of the science/technology: opportunities and key challenges

Maria De-Arteaga, PhD
Assistant Professor, Information, Risk and Operation Department
McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin

9:10-9:20 a.m.     State of approaches to ethics, law, and policy issues: gaps and needs

Jess Morley, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Digital Ethics Center
Yale University

9:20-9:40 a.m.   Panel discussion with speakers above joined by

Tinglong Dai, PhD
Bernard T. Ferrari Professor
Carey School of Business
Johns Hopkins University

Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green, PhD
Early Career Research Fellow
Institute for Ethics in AI
University of Oxford

9:40-10:00 a.m.     Q&A and audience discussion

 

10:00-10:30 a.m.     Break

 

10:30-11:15 a.m.      President Biden’s October 2023 AI Executive Order, One Year On

Fireside chat-style conversation

Moderated by Gillian Hadfield, PhD, JD
Professor, School of Government and Policy; Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University

Dean Alderucci, PhD, JD
Senior Advisor for AI
Senior Congressional Innovation Fellow
U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee

Ami Fields-Meyer
Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

10:30-11:00 a.m.    Opening Statements and Panel Q&A

11:00-11:15 a.m.     Q&A and audience discussion

 

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.     Session 2: Democracy

Moderated by Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH
Founder, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University

11:15-11:25 a.m.   State of the science/technology: opportunities and key challenges

Chenhao Tan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Data Science
University of Chicago

11:25 a.m.-11:35 a.m.     State of approaches to ethics, law, and policy issues: gaps and needs

Nathalie Smuha, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Law and Criminology
KU Leuven

11:35-11:55 a.m.   Panel discussion with speakers above joined by

Tim Harper
Senior Policy Analyst, Elections and Democracy
Center for Democracy & Technology

11:55 a.m.-12:15 p.m.     Q&A and audience discussion

 

12:15-1:15 p.m.     Lunch

 

1:15-2 p.m.      The Role of the National Academies in Ethical AI Governance

Fireside chat-style conversation

Moderated by Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH
Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University

Victor J. Dzau, MD
President
National Academy of Medicine

Marcia McNutt, PhD
President
National Academy of Sciences

1:15-1:45 p.m.    Opening Statements and Panel Q&A

1:45-2:00 p.m.     Q&A and audience discussion

 

2:00-3:00 p.m.     Session 3: Transportation

Moderated by James Bellingham, PhD
Executive Director, Institute for Assured Autonomy
Johns Hopkins University

2:00-2:10 p.m.   State of the science/technology: opportunities and key challenges

John Leonard, PhD
Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:10-2:20 p.m.   State of approaches to ethics, law, and policy issues: gaps and needs

John Basl, PhD
Associate Director, AI and Data Ethics Initiatives
Northeastern University

2:20-2:40 p.m.    Panel discussion with speakers above joined by

Johnathon Ehsani, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

2:40-3:00 p.m.   Q&A and audience discussion

 

3:00-3:30 p.m.     Break

 

3:30-4:30 p.m.     Session 4: Defense and Security

Moderated by Kerstin Vignard
Research Scholar, Institute for Assured Autonomy
Johns Hopkins University

3:30-3:40 p.m.  State of the science/technology: opportunities and key challenges

Jane Pinelis, PhD
Chief AI Engineer of the Applied Information Sciences Branch
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University

3:40-3:50 p.m.     State of approaches to ethics, law, and policy issues: gaps and needs

Yasmin Afina
AI Researcher, Security & Technology Program
UN Institute for Disarmament Research

3:50-4:10 p.m.    Panel discussion with speakers above joined by

David Barnes, PhD
AI Ethics Consultant and Advisor

4:10-4:30 p.m.     Q&A and audience discussion

 

4:30-5:00 p.m.    Closing Remarks

 

5:00-6:00 p.m.   Reception

 

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