Humantech Meetings: Technologiczne i etyczne aspekty sztucznej inteligencji

Dr. Sebastian Szymański – Philosopher specializing in ethics and practical ethics. His research interests focus on justice and ethical problems related to new technologies, in particular robotization and Artificial Intelligence. He teaches roboethics and ethics of new technologies at the Faculty of Artes Liberales and is a member of Laboratorium Techno-Humanistyki [Techno-Humanities Laboratory], at the University of Warsaw. He leads an ethics group in the expert team by the Ministry of Digital Affairs of the Republic of Poland, which is responsible for the development of the Polish Artificial Intelligence strategy. Additionally, he sits on the Digitization Council at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, where he heads its Artificial Intelligence team. His most recent publication is entitled Uzasadnienia teorii sprawiedliwości. Dziedzictwo Johna Rawlsa [Justification of the Theory of Justice. The Legacy of John Rawls] (published by Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar: 2018). Dr. Szymański is currently working on a book about AI ethics, which is scheduled for publication by Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN in 2020.

Vince Madai, M.D., Ph.D. – Vince Madei is a senior medical AI researcher at Charité University Hospital Berlin and CSO at ai4medicine. He holds an M.D., a Ph.D. in Medical Neuroscience and an M.A. degree in Medical Ethics. Additionally, he has completed an Udacity Nanodegree in data science and analysis. His professional interests include AI-research, AI-ethics, data science, post-processing of neuroimaging and clinical research. He has been the scientific lead of the “Predictive Modelling in Medicine” research group at Charité as well as the Prediction2020 and the PRECISE4Q projects for the last two years. He is an expert in AI ethics, specializing in bias and upcoming regulations for AI products. Moreover, he is on the expert council of the Good Technology Collective (GTC) and Associate Editor of an interdisciplinary publication Delphi Journal. Since November 2017, he has been the main organizer of the “Machine Learning in Healthcare” meetup in Berlin.

Łukasz Bargiełowski – holds a Master’s degree in management from the Warsaw Management University. He also completed postgraduate studies in cybersecurity at the Warsaw School of Computer Science. He also is a certified Agile Service Manager/SCRUM Master. For over 14 years, he has been leading teams of engineers in technology companies. He helped to establish and develop Technical Centers in Warsaw, employing programmers and help desk engineers for clients such as Symantec and F5 Networks. In his professional career, he specializes in teaching communication skills for engineers, focusing on relationships with external clients. He often gets involved personally in solving client-related crisis situations. This allows him to closely observe the work of highly skilled technical experts, representing a cool and collected technical approach in confrontation with emotional clients dealing with a technical breakdown. His other interests include organizational culture in technology companies and its impact on employees and on the job market.

Malte Pietsch – is Co-founder of deepset, where he bridges the gap between Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) research and industry, by providing open-source software and developing custom NLP models. He has developed NLP systems for diverse clients, such as Siemens, Airbus and Springer Nature. He is an active open-source contributor and creator of the NLP packages FARM and haystack, which are in line with his biggest interests these days, such as: Transfer Learning, Language Models and the application to Question Answering. He graduated with honors from the Technical University of Munich with a M.Sc. degree and conducted research at Carnegie Mellon University. Before founding deepset he worked as a data scientist for multiple startups.

Konrad Maj, Ph.D. – Social psychologist, Head of the HumanTech Meetings project, initiator and Head of the HumanTech Center for Social and Technological Innovations. In his research and teaching he focuses on social influence, media psychology and innovations. Recently, he has been working on a Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) project. From 2013 to 2016 he held the post of Rector’s Representative for Research, focusing on practical application of research results and social innovations. He visited numerous innovation centers, including the Institute for Social Innovation (ISI) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, the ID+ Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture at the University of Averio, Portugal, and Design Factory at Aalto University, in Finland.