Ethics and artificial intelligence in the interdisciplinary collaborations of smart care
Published: 11 January 2023
Join us online for the latest workshop on Innovative Methods for a Digital Society, exploring ethics and artificial intelligence in smart care
Date: Friday 17th January, 12:00 - 13.00 **online**
Title: Ethics and artificial intelligence in the interdisciplinary collaborations of smart care
Speaker: Prof. Christine Hine (University of Surrey)
Abstract: Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies, and in particular a focus on how scientific and technical work is done, can help us to understand what ethical artificial intelligence might be and how to achieve it. To illustrate this point the presentation will explore a case study of a smart care system using machine learning to enable remote monitoring of people living at home with dementia. Through exploring ethics as practice and discourse from the diverse perspectives of those involved in development and deployment, key areas of working where ethical moments arise and are handled are identified. Ethics manifests in a shared understanding of the common goal within an interdisciplinary trading zone and also through the practices of key team members who translate concerns between discipline-based research groups and who act as representatives of the ultimate users of the systems. Ethics is done, according to participants, both in the meetings where engineering and clinical perspectives come together and in discipline-specific practices that sit outside of the trading zone. This STS-informed perspective on ethical artificial intelligence enables us to understand how important it is for an infrastructure that supports ethical thinking to be woven through the collaborations that create artificial intelligence, across disciplines and throughout the lifetime of a project.
Speaker Biography: Christine Hine is a sociologist of science and technology who has a particular focus on the role played by new technologies in the knowledge construction process. She has a major interest in the development of ethnography in technical settings and in "virtual methods" (the use of the Internet in social research). In particular, she has developed mobile and connective approaches to ethnography that combine online and offline social contexts. In common with many scholars in Science and Technology Studies, Christine has a scientific and technical background herself. She studied Botany (BA, Oxon) and Biological Computation (MSc, York) and completed her DPhil in the Biology Department at York before making a transition to Sociology of Science and Technology.
What is the Innovative Research Methodologies for a Digital Society (IRMDS) (2022-2023) Workshop Series?
Algorithms, digital data sets, social media networks, integrated technologies are all part of our everyday lives. How should we investigate the ongoing changes and challenges of our digital society? How should we explore our relationships with digital data and the online world? What are the limitations and affordances of new methodologies and what ethical considerations should researchers take into account as they look at the digitalisation of our lives? The Digital Society and Economy Interdisciplinary Theme Group invites you to join us for a new workshop series where you can meet researchers who will share Innovative Research Methodologies that address current digital practices and phenomena.
The workshops are open to postgraduate researchers, Early Career Researchers, as well as experienced researchers who want to learn about new methodologies or share their own experiences with the methods presented in the workshop. Each workshop will focus on a new method/methodology tried and tested in various contexts. The workshops are meant to provide participants with the opportunity to learn about that method/methodology and ask questions about the process of implementing it. Each workshop will last 50 minutes: 20-30 min for speaker's presentation and 20-30 min for Q&A.
First published: 11 January 2023
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