{"id":6194,"date":"2025-03-04T14:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:38:17","slug":"professor-of-robot-ethics-alan-winfield-attends-paris-conference-on-safe-and-ethical-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/professor-of-robot-ethics-alan-winfield-attends-paris-conference-on-safe-and-ethical-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor of Robot Ethics, Alan Winfield, attends Paris conference on Safe and Ethical AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Alan Winfield, Professor of Robot Ethics, recently attended the Paris Conference on Safe and Ethical AI. In the below guest blog post he writes about his experience: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month I was privileged to part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaseai.org\/conference\">inaugural conference<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaseai.org\/\">International Association for Safe and Ethical AI<\/a>. The two day conference was held in Paris, on February 6<sup>th<\/sup> and 7<sup>th<\/sup>, and hosted by the OECD.&nbsp; The timing and location of the conference was arranged to directly precede the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/en\/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia\">governmental AI-summit<\/a> on February 10<sup>th<\/sup> and 11<sup>th<\/sup>. I was one of around 650 invited representatives from academia, civil society, industry, media, and government. It was a remarkable meeting, with terrific keynote talks, including three from Nobel prize winners, Geoffrey Hinton, Maria Ressa and Joseph Stiglitz. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As someone who has been worrying about robot and AI ethics for longer than most who attended I was *very* pleased that there was a strong consensus around the need for regulation, supported by standards, alongside urgent concerns over the huge energy and water costs of AI that are completely at odds with sustainable development goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conference concluded by publishing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaseai.org\/conference\/statement\">Call to Action<\/a> for lawmakers, academics, and the public ahead of the AI Summit, with ten critical action items. Overall, the action items are very good. I\u2019m especially pleased to see \u2018mandatory reporting of incidents\u2019 in action 5. This is something I lobbied for. My one disappointment however is that the call for action statement has no explicit mention of the need to mitigate the energy costs of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here below are a few photos from the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/image.jpeg 646w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/image-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A slide from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Stiglitz\">Joseph Stiglitz<\/a>\u2019 wonderful keynote: AI and Economic Risk: Assessment and Mitigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/image-1.jpeg 646w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/image-1-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A slide from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kate_Crawford\">Kate Crawford<\/a>\u2019s excellent keynote: Hyperscaled: The Global Challenge of Sustainability in AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cover photo at the top: Professor Alan Winfield with Oxford colleague Pericle Salvini presenting their work on accident investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Winfield, Professor of Robot Ethics, recently attended the Paris Conference on Safe and Ethical AI. In the below guest blog post he writes about his experience: Earlier this month I was privileged to part of the inaugural conference of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI. The two day conference was held in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/professor-of-robot-ethics-alan-winfield-attends-paris-conference-on-safe-and-ethical-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Professor of Robot Ethics, Alan Winfield, attends Paris conference on Safe and Ethical AI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":6197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":108,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,108,4],"tags":[42,62,226,76],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-business-innovation","category-technology","category-uwe-bristol-research","tag-innovation","tag-research","tag-uwe-bristol-research","tag-uwe-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}