The English version of our 'Guidance Ethics Approach' is now available for download. This approach, that was developed with the working group on Ethics and Digitalization of ECP | Platform for the Information Society, offers concrete ethical guidance for the design, implementation and use of technologies. You can download the (free) publication here: https://ppverbeek.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/guidance-ethics-approach-1.pdf. An … Continue reading ‘Guidance Ethics Approach’ available for download

Nov 8, there will be a High-Level Dialogue Panel on Scientific Ethics and Science Culture at the 2nd World Forum on Science and Technology Development (WFEO). I will contribute with a perspective from the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST) and the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on AI Ethics. … Continue reading World Forum on Science and Technology Development

The website that will host our Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations conference is now online! You can participate (and still register until Nov 1 2020) via http://phtr2020.events.

Interview in ‘Snoek op Zolder’: de nieuwe wetenschapspodcast van de Nederlandse AI Coalitie en het Nationaal Innovatie Centrum voor AI. Over kunstmatige intelligentie, ethiek, Unesco en het belang van een mondiaal perspectief. Luister via https://www.buzzsprout.com/1351051/5829931-4-met-peter-paul-verbeek-hoogleraar-techniekfilosofie-bij-de-universiteit-twente-met-een-bonustrack-titans-van-singer-songwriter-leine

Column in De Ingenieur, over de ethiek van de CoronaMelder app en de spanning tussen individuele en collectieve waarden: https://www.deingenieur.nl/artikel/meer-dan-privacy-alleen.

29 november, dataweek: lezing over de invloed van AI op mens en maatschappij en de (ethische) vragen die dit met zich meebrengt, en presentatie White Paper over Maatschappelijk verantwoorde Artificiële Intelligentie, met afwegingen over de mogelijkheid van een ‘ethische code’ tussen overheid, bedrijfsleven en wetenschap en inwoners van Nederland. Zie: https://nlaic.com/agenda/webinar-mensgerichte-artificiele-intelligentie/

Oct 7 2020: keynote during the SURF Summit, for all educational organizations in higher and professional education, on the challenges of digital technology in research and education, in times of COVID and beyond. How to deal responsibly with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in research and education? How transparent can we be about data and … Continue reading Oct 7, 2020: Keynote at SURF Summit 2020

The UNESCO draft recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence is now online: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374266. Written from a global ethics perspective, and concerned about the impact of AI on the human mind. Click here for the UNESCO press release: https://en.unesco.org/news/major-progress-unescos-development-global-normative-instrument-ethics-ai

Now online: the *preliminary* program of the Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations conference 2020, full of exciting panels, workshops, papers, posters and keynotes by Caroline Hummels, Christopher Preston, Robert Rosenberger, and Ashley Shew: https://www.utwente.nl/en/phtr/program-2020/ #phtr2020 Download the pdf here: preliminary-phtr-conference-program-version-sept-15Download

Saturday Sept 13, I will give a talk at the 2020 Gogbot symposium. Can digital technologies defeat the coronavirus? See: https://2020.gogbot.nl/conference/