FYI Da: e.ferguson@antenna.nl [mailto:e.ferguson@antenna.nl] Inviato: martedì 10 novembre 2020 03:01 Oggetto: Invitation to a Pugwash Netherlands Webinar on AI, Drones and Cyberwarfare, 17 Novermber 2020 Pugwash Netherlands Invitation to a Webinar on AI, Drones and Cyberwarfare Tuesday, November 17th, 19:00 to 20:30 Amsterdam Time In this first Webinar by Pugwash Netherlands on contemporary developments in weapons and warfare, we have invited two experts to share their insights on the usage and future development in the relatively new technologies of AI, Drones and Cyberwarfare. Drs. Sico van der Meer is a Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute. His research focuses on non-conventional weapons such as Weapons of Mass Destruction (nuclear, chemical, biological) and cyber weapons, from a strategic policy perspective. Dr Elke Schwarz of the University of London. Her research focuses on the political and ethical implications of new technologies, in particular digital technologies and autonomous systems. In 2018, she published her monograph "Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies".' The two speakers will give relatively short introductions. The participants can then use the Chat function of MEET to make comments or ask questions, which the moderator will pass on to the speakers. The meeting will be held in English using MEET. Any browser can be used. Those who turn on their webcam will be visible to the others on screen. We are sending this invitation to individuals, European Pugwash Groups and other groups that we know, both in the Netherlands and abroad. _REQUEST: Please forward this invitation to colleagues and others who could be interested, especially if you are receiving this as a representative of a group. Please avoid delays, as the invitees must have time to register for the webinar. _ If you wish to participate, please send an e-mail to bestuur@pugwash.nl. We will mail the E-webinar link to the address from which you apply. Eric Ferguson, secretary bestuur@pugwash.nl [1] Mail priva di virus. www.avast.com [1] _______________________________________________ Associati mailing list Associati@uspid.org http://uspid.org/mailman/listinfo/associati_uspid.org -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [2]) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 1986] Links: ------ [1] https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient [2] http://www.isti.cnr.it