The Memorial Union will hold “Advancing AI and Tech Ethics Symposium” in the Sun Room, South Ballroom and Room 2630 Thursday. 

The event will present lectures from various Iowa State professors, as well as other faculty from Baruch College, University of Minnesota Duluth and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The event is a one-day conference and will cater lunch to those attending. All faculty, staff and students are welcome.

The schedule is listed below:

Starting at 9:15 a.m., a welcoming will be held in the Sun Room and to follow a choice of two lectures.

From 9:30 a.m. to 10:20 a.m., Michael Bugeja will be holding a lecture titled “Departments May Be Ill-Equipped to Deal with AI Threats and Risks” in Room 2630. In the Sun Room, Ratul Chowdhury will also be lecturing at this time.

From 10:30 a.m. to 11:10 a.m., Angela Prince will hold a lecture in the Sun Room titled “GenAI in Special Education: Ethical Considerations & Best Practices.”

To follow, from 11:20 a.m. to noon, Alexis Elder will present “Talking with Ghosts: Advice from Mohist Philosophy on Digitally Reanimating the Dead” in Room 2630. At the same time, Eric York will present “Prompting Bias: Accuracy and representation in AI generated images” in the Sun Room.

Lunch will be provided from noon to 1 p.m. in the South Ballroom and the Sun Room.

For the second half of the event, starting at 1 p.m., Daniel Corrigan will lecture “AI and Ethical Judgement” in room 2630. In the Sun Room, Michael Bootsma and Peter Liang will present “AI in Education: Potential Legal & Ethical Pitfalls.” 

From 1:50 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Clinton Castro will be in room 2630 to lecture on “Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy,” while Marc Anderson will be presenting in the Sun Room.

From 2:40 p.m. to 3:20 p.m., Elizabeth Edenberg will be in Room 2630, presenting “Securing Rights in the Digital Age.” Meanwhile, Anne Kimber will be lecturing in the Sun Room, presenting “Energy and Water Challenges for AI.”

Lastly, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:10 p.m., Clark Wolf will present “Who Owns This Slop?” in Room 2620 while Ritwik Banerji will present “An Anthropology of Ethics in the Uncanny Valley,” in the Sun Room.

The schedule of events is listed on The Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities website’s events page along with details on each lecture.