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    July 22-24 2022, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    IACAP is delighted to announce a return to Silicon Valley–with the 2022 meeting being hosted by Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering, with support from SCU Philosophy faculty and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Pending any necessities of the pandemic, IACAP is pleased to invite you to join the 2022 meeting.

     

    Virtual Keynote Address
    Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford and University of Bologna
    Risks and Opportunities in the Infosphere

    In an age of digital disruption and uncertainties, it is essential to understand the new challenges facing us and to shape the right strategies. We need to be better at analysing the present and designing the future. This is particularly true in the business of risks and opportunities raised by AI, which is both a crucial element in the development of a fair and sustainable society and one of the most challenging aspects of a fast-paced digital transition.

     

    Theme and Focus

    ‘Engineering Ethics’ holds multiple meanings. It can encompass the applied practice of engineers, and the all-important sensitivity to the difficult and nuanced moral normative aspects of their profession. But it also evokes the realization of systems that are designed, engineered, to promote more ethical outcomes. The questions raised by ‘Engineering Ethics’ are as varied as they are subtle and challenging, and we invite submissions that address any and all aspects of this theme.

    In addition to the above focus for this conference, IACAP more broadly has a long-lasting tradition of promoting philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of a computational and informational turn. This puts it in a privileged position, as IACAP’s members have contributed to shaping the philosophical and ethical debate about computing, information technologies, and artificial intelligence. The 2022 annual meeting will continue this tradition and will gather philosophers, ethicists, roboticists, and computer scientists and engineers interested in the following topics: 

    • Artificial Intelligence

    • Artificial Life

    • Automated Warfare

    • Cognitive Science, Computation & Cognition

    • Computational Modeling in Science and Social Science

    • Computer-Mediated Communication

    • Ethical Problems and Societal Impact of Computation and Information

    • Ethics of Big Data

    • History of Computing

    • Information Culture and Society

    • Metaphysics of Computing

    • Philosophy of Information

    • Philosophy of Information Technology

    • Robotics

    • Virtual Reality

    … and related issues

    The meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics at the core of IACAP members’ interests. Symposia will also be organized and run by members, or groups of members, to focus on more specific topics. We invite submissions of extended abstracts (up to 1000 words) as well as submission of proposals for symposia. 

     

    Venue

    The 2022 meeting will be hosted both virtually and (pandemic circumstances permitting) in-person. The physical location for the meeting will be on Santa Clara University’s beautiful campus in the heart of Silicon Valley.  Santa Clara University (SCU) is the oldest operating institution of higher education in California, and, as the Jesuit University of SIlicon Valley, it is an institution that prides itself on being a part of a five centuries-old educational tradition that emphasizes both discernment and a commitment to educating the whole person. Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering is proud to host the 2022 IACAP meeting, with support from faculty in SCU’s Philosophy department and SCU’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (The conference will immediately follow the 2022 Summer Institute on Technology Ethics, SITE 2022, also being held at SCU).

     

    Keynote Speakers 

    • Prof. Luciano Floridi

      Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, where he directs the Centre for Digital Ethics. He is a world-renowned expert on digital ethics, the ethics of AI, the philosophy of information, and the philosophy of technology. He has published more than 300 works, translated into many languages. He is deeply engaged with policy initiatives on the socio-ethical value and implications of digital technologies and their applications, and collaborates closely on these topics with many governments and companies worldwide.

    • Covey Award - Prof. Shannon Vallor

      Prof. Shannon Vallor will present the Covey Award address at the IACAP 2022 conference. The International Association for Computing and Philosophy’s Executive Board selected Pof. Vallor for the 2022 Covey Award recognizing senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived. The board recognised Professor Vallor’s significant contribution to our field, both in academic as well as public spheres over the last two decades.

      Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy. She serves as Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. Her current project examines responsibility gaps in the governance of autonomous systems, as part of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems programme. She is the author of Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press, 2016) and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology (2022).She is the recipient of multiple awards for teaching, scholarship and public engagement, including the 2015 World Technology Award in Ethics.

    • Simon Award - Dr. Björn Lundgren
      Dr. Björn Lundgren will present the Simon Award Address at IACAP 2022. The International Association for Computing and Philosophy’s executive board selected Dr. Lundgren for the 2022 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy, which specifically recognizes scholars at an early stage of their academic career whose research is likely to reshape debates at the nexus of Computing and Philosophy.
       

      Dr Lundgren is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). He was awarded a Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2018. The year after he started working at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm, Sweden), leading a project on ethical and societal aspects of the implementation of self-driving vehicles (with funding from the Swedish Transport Administration). During his time at IFFS, Lundgren also consulted for the University of Twente in two EU-projects (SHERPA and SIENNA), mostly working on ethical guidelines for AI and robotics. In 2020, Lundgren left IFFS for a postdoc at Umeå University (Sweden) in a project on AI, Democracy and Self-Determination. Lundgren is currently working in a research program on the Ethics of socially disruptive technologies (ESDiT). His main focus is on methods of ethics of technology in general, and socially disruptive technologies, in particular. This methodological focus can be found in many of his previous works, which ranges over topics such as information, information security, anonymity, privacy, the right to privacy, decision under risk and uncertainty, self-driving vehicles, and AI.

      Photo Credit: The Institute for Future Studies