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WS – The Ethics of Persuasive Technologies [Oxford]
13 May 2023, 9:00 AM–7:00 PM BST
The following workshop is organised by Max Kiener, formerly RoR’s post-doctoral research fellow, and currently Professor of Philosophy and Digital Ethics at the University of Oldenburg.
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This workshop focuses on the ethics of interaction with digital technologies, and in particular on the use of so-called persuasive technologies, which include recommender systems, bottom-less news feeds, and micro-targeted advertising. These technologies have in common that they exert forms of a-rational, manipulative, or nudging-related influences on human users. To explore the ethics of persuasive technologies, the presentations will consider the implications of different conceptions of personal autonomy for this digital sphere, the various forms of manipulation and deception online, and the increasing spread of responsibility for harmful outcomes.
The workshop is supported by The Society for Applied Philosophy and The Leverhulme Trust.
Date and time
Sat, 13 May 2023 09:00 – 19:00 BST
Programme
09.00 Welcome and Registration
9.30-10.30 Thomas Douglas (Oxford): The Scope of the Right Against Mental Interference
10.45-11.45 Susanne Boll (Oldenburg): Human Centered AI – What if an AI tells you what (not) to do?
12.00-13.00 Michael Kolain (Berlin) & Paul Seeliger (Speyer): Legal remedies to address persuasive and manipulative design patterns in digital services and products
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Emily Sullivan (Eindhoven): Manipulative explanations in ML
15.15-16.15 Silvia Milano (Exeter): Epistemic obstacles to the governance of algorithmic systems
16.15-17.45 Coffee break
16.45-17.45 Carina Prunkl (Oxford): Autonomy and AI: a closer look at choice architectures
18.30 Conference Dinner (location TBC)