Václav Janeček
Václav Janeček is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Masaryk University’s Institute of Law and Technology where he focuses on civil remedies for illegal online tracking. He is also a Research and Course Development Fellow in Law and Technology at the University of Oxford and a foudning co-director of the Oxford LawTech Education Programme, a research-led interdisciplinary programme at the intersection of law and computer science.
Title
Data-driven technologies and the problem of responsibility
Abstract
This talk will argue that data-driven artificial agents, often referred to as artifical intelligence (AI) systems, are not moral agents. And since these AI technologies are always deployed in semantic contexts, none of the existing technical approaches to explainability can serve the goals of responsibility. Thus, and contrary to the received wisdom, it will be argued that AI systems do not invoke important questions of responsibility. In this sense, these systems do not invoke the question of responsibility of AI; and neither they invoke the the question of responsibility for AI. By exposing this fallacious framing of AI responsibility issues, the talk will highlight the dangers of those AI liability proposals that assume some underlying (and in principle responsible) moral agency of an AI system. The speaker’s overall thesis will be that liability for an AI system should be de-linked from the question of AI responsibility.