Ethics & Tech Conference at Seattle University June 22

Seattle University will host a conference on Thursday exploring the role of artificial intelligence in preparing workers for short- and long-term success, the implications for the shifting educational landscape and the potential impact of intelligent machines on tomorrow's workforce. 

Conference speakers will be:

• Blaise Aguera ya Arcas, vice president, Google Research
• Father Paolo Benanti, an AI ethics advisor to Pope Francis and a professor at Pontificia Universita Gregoriana
• Lori Lewis, operations leader of the Technology Trust Ethics team at Deloitte

*Media are invited to attend, please RSVP to vanderv1@seattleu.edu

**Father Benanti is open for media interviews

“This technology will continue to advance and applications of AI will exponentially transform human productivity. It is our duty to ensure this technology enhances our humanity,” says Dean Amit Shukla, PhD, of SU's College of Science and Engineering. “This conference is a timely attempt to engage in this conversation around education, technology and ethics so we can prepare the future workforce. I believe Seattle University’s mission uniquely enables this dialogue and am looking forward to this seminal conference.”

“Big changes happen slowly, then all at once. After many boom-and-bust cycles, real AI has arrived,” says Aguera ya Arcas. “It’s time to engage in thoughtful conversation about the politics, economy, ecology and ethics of a planetary future full of social intelligence at every scale.”

Click here to register to attend on the 22nd.

Read a recent op-ed written by SU President Eduardo Peñalver and Dean Shukla entitled Generative AI is a powerful tool that requires a human touch. 

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