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Subject: [DigHum Lecture Series] Next talk on February 21: Tina
Peterson “Abstracted power and responsibility”
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:50:02 +0100
From: Enrico Nardelli <narde...@mat.uniroma2.it>
Organization: Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata"
(apologies for cross posting)
We are pleased to invite you to the next talk in our Lecture Series:
Date and time: *Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 5:00 p.m.* (17:00)
Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Topic: *“Abstracted power and responsibility”*
(scroll down for abstract and CV)
Speaker: *Tina Peterson* (University of Texas, Austin)
Moderator: *Carlo Ghezzi* (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
To participate via *Zoom* go to:
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The talk will be live streamed and recorded on our *YouTube* channel:
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events via that link.
Upcoming talks:
*March 07, 2023* at 5:00 p.m for *“Seize the Means of Computation”*
Speaker: *Cory Doctorow* (craphound.com) Moderator: *Allison Stanger*
(Middlebury College, USA)
*March 09, 2023* at 5:00 p.m Speaker: *Gerry Marcus* (garymarcus.com)
We are pleased to announce that the Bavarian Research Institute for
Digital Transformation (bidt) <https://bidt.digital>, an Institute
within the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, is a
cooperation partner for DigHum Lecture Series.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Hannes Werthner
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*ABSTRACT:*
Technology often serves as a lever to extend and amplify our power. It
is increasingly possible in the 21st century to make decisions that
have profound impacts on people thousands of miles away from us. As it
extends our reach geographically and culturally, this long arm of
technology can also distance us perceptually from impacts of our
decisions and make the consequences easier to ignore. We call the
outcome of this phenomenon ‘abstracted power,’ and identify it as an
important obstacle to overcome as we promote social responsibility in
engineering education. Our work is with computer science students, but
abstracted power could apply to any engineering field and indeed may
find traction beyond those disciplinary boundaries. In this
interactive talk I will introduce the concept of abstracted power and
the highlights of a paper my colleagues Rodrigo Ferreira and Moshe
Vardi and I recently published on the subject. Next I will describe
how I have used this concept in my computer science ethics classes and
share some students’ observations of this phenomenon in the ‘real
world.’ I will then invite members of the audience to share their
thoughts on this concept in the context of their own disciplines.
Finally I will talk about ways to un-abstract power and make computer
scientists and others feel a greater sense of personal responsibility
for the consequences of their actions.
*Short Bio of Tina Peterson:*
Tina L. Peterson is an assistant professor of instruction in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin,
where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on ethics and
social responsibility in computer science, including AI and robotics.
She is senior personnel on a National Science Foundation Research
Traineeship program, The Convergent, Responsible, and Ethical AI
Training Experience (CREATE) for Roboticists. She received the B.Sc.
degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder, in
2000, the M.A. degree in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies from the
University of Nottingham, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in Mass Media
and Communication from Temple University, in 2012. In addition to
teaching and research, she is the author of the children’s book ‘Oscar
and the Amazing Gravity Repellent’ (Capstone, 2015).
*Short Bio of Carlo Ghezzi:*
Carlo Ghezzi is an Emeritus Professor at Politecnico di Milano, where
he has been teaching and doing research for over 40 years. He is an
ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, member of Academia Europaea, and member of
the Italian Academy of Sciences (Istituto Lombardo). He received the
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award. He has been President of
Informatics Europe. He has done research on programming languages and
software engineering. He has published over 200 papers in
international journals and conferences and co-authored 6 books. He is
interested in the ethical implications of research in computer
science. He is currently chairing the Ethics Committee at Politecnico
di Milano.
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Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
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