Larry Medsker is co-editor-in-chief of the Springer Nature journal AI and Ethics and associate editor of their Neural Computing and Applications journal. He is also chair of the US Technology Policy Committee for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of the ACM SIGAI. Dr. Medsker is a research professor of physics at the University of Vermont and affiliate faculty at the George Mason University Center for Assurance Research and Engineering. He was the founding director of the Data Science graduate program at The George Washington University and is a member of the GW Human-Technology Collaboration lab. His AI research includes work on artificial neural networks and hybrid intelligent systems, and he has authored over 100 published articles and four books.

Description:
This workshop will explore the ethical issues emerging from the boom in the development and use of AI tools, including Generative AI models such as ChatGPT. Many questions arise from the race to commercialise AI applications, some of which have been shown to be flawed and potentially harmful. The development of legal and regulatory frameworks lag way behind the pace of technological advances in Large Language Models and other Generative AI tools, leaving gaps which are being exploited by commercial developers for profit - but at what cost to society?