Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has been one of the basic building blocks of technological advances that has led to smart phones, autonomous vehicles, robots, consumer products, etc., to name a few. In many developed and developing countries of the world, this “information revolution” has altered, along with other technological advances, many aspects of life that are being increasingly experienced by many. Commercial transactions, employment, medicine, security, transportation, entertainment and many others have witnessed irrevocable changes in recent years. Consequential effects have been both good and bad –community life, family life, human relationships, education, careers, freedom, and democracy, to name just a few examples.

Join Silicon Valley’s IEEE Communication Society in an evening of presentations and discussions of traditional Western ethics theories like utilitarianism, Kantianism, or virtue ethics, to ethical cases that involve ICT and other technological advances. Two distinguished speakers of Silicon Valley –one, a very accomplished technologist Vivek Wadhwa and the other, Prof. Shannon Vallor of SCU will present their views.

Vivek Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Director of Research at Duke University, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post

Title: Our Amazing and Scary Technology Future!

Prof. Shannon Vallor, William J. Rewak, S.J. Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Santa Clara University

Title: AI’s Ethical Imperative: How to Humanize Machine Values

You do not need to be an IEEE member to attend.

Thank you,

IEEE Communications Society

Santa Clara Valley Chapter (ComSoc SCV)