Join us at the Munich Center for Machine Learning’s AI Ethics Conference on The Ethics of Generative AI & Conversational Agents, at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, 12-13 September 2024. Our CDHI Core Director on Digital Ethics and Care for Older Adults Dr. Rasita Vinay will present the following work of our centre:

Vinay, R., Klöppel, S., Schlögl, M. & Kowatsch, T. (2024) Exploring the role of value-sensitive designs for large-language model-based voice assistants targeting people with dementia, Munich Center for Machine Learning’s AI Ethics Conference on The Ethics of Generative AI & Conversational Agents, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, 12-13 September 2024, Abstract and Oral Presentation

Only 3 out of 70 abstracts have been selected resulting in 4% acceptance rate. Congratulations, dear Rasita,  and team!

In addition to this talk, the AI Ethics Conference on The Ethics of Generative AI & Conversational Agents will focus on recent technological advancements in AI and formulate highly relevant ethical questions. The release of ChatGPT and DALL-E marked the beginning of the widespread use of generative AI. This technology, allowing us to create content such as text or images within seconds, now supports us with a range of tasks, from writing emails to brainstorming gift ideas or creating art. It can support academics with writing papers and parents entertaining their children, and it might even be used in psychiatric contexts to provide mental health advice. We also increasingly interact with conversational generative AI to communicate with virtual assistants or chatbots used in customer service. The increasing reliance on and interaction with conversational agents and generative AI raises many ethical questions:

1. In which areas, and to what extent, is it reasonable for us to rely on content provided by AI?
2. Where does our reliance involve too great dangers?
3. Who deserves the credit for the content created by AIs?
4. Who should be blamed, if the created content is harmful or false?
5. What are some of the dangers of our increasing interaction with conversational AIs?
6. Can we, in the first place, be truly said to interact with them?
7. If we can’t, what are some potential risks of our believing that we can interact with AIs?

This conference explores these and other ethical issues posed by generative artificial intelligence and conversational agents. It brings together academic researchers and AI ethics practitioners to examine the ethics of generative AI in general and study the specific challenges this new technology poses in industrial settings. Keynote speakers are Prof. Alena Buyx from the Technical University of Munich, Prof. Herman Cappelen, University of Hong Kong, Prof. Michael Klenk from Delft University of Technology, and Jana Sedlakova from University of Zurich.

The conference is kindly sponsored by the Munich Center for Machine Learning and jointly organised by LMU’s research group in the ethics of AI (Prof. Dr. Sven Nyholm, Dr. Benjamin Lange and Lara Maszynski) and the Munich Center for Machine Learning (Dr. Carina Geldhauser).

Please join Rasita and all the other conference attendees during the two days in September!