Topic: expertise

Maximilian Kasy examines the human choices and ownership structures shaping artificial intelligence. After introducing how AI works, he focuses on who determines its objectives and controls the resources needed to build it: data, computing capacity, expertise and energy. The lecture argues that these decisions, rather than autonomous technological inevitability, influence the distribution of AI’s benefits and harms in an already unequal society. It presents a framework for understanding AI capabilities and considers democratic control of objectives and public oversight as responses to those c

David Autor examines why employment persists as machines take over tasks, and where new kinds of work come from. He distinguishes technologies that replace workers’ expertise from those that complement it, tracing occupational change, labour-market polarisation and the emergence of new work. The lecture turns to artificial intelligence and the possibility of using it to expand the range of people who can perform valuable expert tasks. Examples include writing, healthcare and elder care, alongside the risks of automation that leaves people poorly equipped to handle failures. Autor considers th

Analogy offers a new interpretation of a common concern in ethics: whether decision making includes or excludes a consideration of moral issues. This is often discussed as the moral awareness of decision makers and considered a motivational concern. The possible new interpretation is that moral awareness is in part a matter of expertise. Some failures of moral awareness can then be understood as stemming from novicehood. Studies of analogical transfer are consistent with the possibility that moral awareness is in part a matter of expertise, that as a result motivation is less helpful than some

The NeurotechEU student councils invites you to a special event on the occasion of the International Women's Day. 15 different speakers from very different backgrounds, seniority and expertise will share their experience on women in science, from students, to professeurs, to researchers, to the European Commission, discover their very unique insights.