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SUMMARY:AI Ethics and Engagement with Children and Young People - Mhairi A
 itken (The Alan Turing Institute)
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DESCRIPTION:While recent years have brought significant and growing intere
 st in ethical considerations relating to AI and machine learning\, CS educ
 ation or STEM outreach programmes typically focus on technical dimensions.
  This seminar will set out the importance of embedding ethics at the heart
  of education and youth engagement relating to AI. Embedding ethics throug
 hout all CS education is vital to ensure that future technologies and AI-p
 owered services are designed to maximise the value and societal benefits o
 f AI while avoiding potential negative impacts.\n\nThis seminar will provi
 de a brief overview and background to current debates around AI ethics\, s
 etting out key ethical principles and how they apply to AI\, before discus
 sing the ways in which these relate to children and young people. The talk
  will draw on current research being undertaken in the Public Policy Progr
 amme at The Alan Turing Institute to illustrate opportunities and approach
 es to engage children and young people with this important topic. Moreover
 \, it will discuss the importance of engaging with children and young peop
 le to inform ethical practice.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nDr. Mhairi Aitken is an Eth
 ics Fellow in the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute. Sh
 e is a Sociologist whose research examines social and ethical dimensions o
 f digital innovation particularly relating to uses of data and AI. Mhairi 
 has a particular interest in the role of public engagement in informing et
 hical data practices. Her past research has focussed in particular on the 
 role of machine learning in finance\; governance of data-intensive health 
 research\; ethical considerations around secondary uses of health data and
 \; planning and development processes relating to renewable energy project
 s. Prior to joining the Turing Institute\, Mhairi was a Senior Research As
 sociate at Newcastle University. Between 2009 and 2018 Mhairi was a Resear
 ch Fellow at the University of Edinburgh where she undertook a programme o
 f research and public engagement to explore social and ethical dimensions 
 of data-intensive health research. She held roles as a Public Engagement R
 esearch Fellow in both the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research a
 nd the Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP).
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