Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs
Directorate for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs
Policy Department C - Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs
For the Committee on Legal Affairs
Workshop with National Parliaments on
ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -
ETHICAL ISSUES AND REGULATORY APPROACH
Draft Programme
Monday 17 October 2016
3.00 - 6.30 p.m.
European Parliament, JAN 6Q2, Brussels
3.00 - 3.05 - Welcome and opening remarks by
Pavel Svoboda,
Chair of the European Parliament
Committee on Legal Affairs
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Ethical issues of robotics and artificial intelligence - Will artificial intelligence bring in
utopia or destruction?
(3.05 - 4.00 p.m.)
Keynote Speech - Artificial Intelligence as a threat for human development N.N. -tbc
Francesca Rossi,
IBM Research and Professor of computer science at the University of
Padova (Italy), signatory of the January 2015 Open letter on “Research Priorities for Robust
and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence”, on “Maximising
the potential of Artificial Intelligence to
bring benefits to humanity”;
Murray Shanahan,
Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College, London (UK),
signatory of the January 2015 Open letter on “Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial
Artificial Intelligence”, on “The
needs and possibilities for common regulation and values for
beneficial Artificial Intelligence”
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Questions / discussion