ART-AI Seminar
We are pleased to have Marija Slavkovik, who is Professor with the Faculty for Social Sciences of the University of Bergen, join us for this ART-AI seminar entitled ‘Machine Ethics’.
This seminar will take place in person in 1W 2.03, on Monday 8th December 2025, 12.15pm-13.15pm (GMT). There is also an option to join online. Marina De Vos will chair. For more information, please e-mail [email protected].
Title
Machine Ethics
Abstract
No algorithm is innocent of their designers, but when we outsource our decision-making to computation, we also make them our moral arbiters. This state of affairs strongly motivates the need to enable some moral reasoning capacity for automated systems and smart devices. How to make this happen is the subject area of Machine ethics. This talk introduces this field and methodology in broad strokes. It offers an overview of the field developments including most impactful references, and presents the open challenges.
Bio
Marija Slavkovik is a Professor with the Faculty for Social Sciences of the University of Bergen. Her background is in computer science and artificial intelligence. She has been doing research in machine ethics since 2012. Machine ethics studies how moral reasoning can or should be automated. Marija works on formalising ethical collective decision-making. She has held several seminars, tutorials and graduate courses on AI ethics http://slavkovik.com/teaching.html. This semester she is a Visiting Leverhulme Professor at the University of Manchester.
