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SUMMARY:The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology -
  Marcus Tomalin\, CUED\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20181116T120000Z
DTEND:20181116T130000Z
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CONTACT:Andrew Caines
DESCRIPTION:_Hey Siri\, how should I vote in the next national election?_\
 n\nUsing manifesto promises and gathered data\, Siri could determine which
  \nparty championed her owner’s core socio-political and economic values
  –- or\, alternatively\, she could simply name the party offering the mo
 st \nenticing tax breaks to the secretive corporation that created her. An
 d if \nher response were based on a covert pre-programmed agenda such as t
 he latter\, who would know?\n\nAutomated conversational agents are prototy
 pical examples of Artificially \nIntelligent Communications Technology (AI
 CT)\, and such systems make \nextensive use of speech technology\, natural
  language processing\, smart \ntelecommunications\, and social media. AICT
  is already rapidly transforming our society by enabling unprecedentedly s
 wift and diffuse language-based interactions. Therefore\, while AICT can g
 reatly facilitate communication and information retrieval\, it also offers
  opportunities for distortion and deception. Unbalanced data sets can cove
 rtly reinforce problematical social biases\, while microtargeted messaging
  and the distribution of malinformation can be used for malicious purposes
 .\n\nThis talk will consider the social impact of some of these systems\, 
 and\, \nby so doing\, it will seek to motivate the need for designing AICT
  systems \nthat are more ethical and trustworthy.\n\n*Speaker Bio*\n\nDr M
 arcus Tomalin has been a member of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory in 
 the Engineering Department since the late 1990s\, where he has been involv
 ed in developing a wide range of speech recognition\, speech synthesis\, a
 nd machine translation systems. In addition\, he is a member of the Philos
 ophy Faculty\, and he has research interests in the ethics of technology a
 nd the philosophy of language.\n
LOCATION:FW11\, Computer Laboratory
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