SPRITE+ Lunch and Learn

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May 23
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Updated: 4 days ago

Introducing SPRITE+ Lunch + Learn - the perfect chance to:

Discover the latest developments in the world of TIPS (Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security).
Hear short TED style talks by experts on TIPS related topics.
Get your questions answered with 10 mins of Q&A.

Join us on the third Wednesday of the month at 1:00pm (GMT) for a lightning 20 minute talk from an Industry or Academic expert.

Previous Lunch and Learn talks:

Lunch + Learn with Kieron O'Hara: '5 AIMS (Artificial Intelligence Management Strategies)

Our first Lunch + Learn talk was with Kieron O'Hara. Following on from their recent book Four Internets, on ideology and Internet governance, Kieron O’Hara and Wendy Hall have applied its framework to Artificial Intelligence, delineating Five Artificial Intelligence Management Strategies (5 AIMS).

In this talk, O’Hara considers these in the context of the theory of trust from his forthcoming book Blockchain Politics to consider how each of the 5 AIMS interprets the notion of trustworthy AI differently, and what this means for global governance of AI.

About Kieron:

Kieron O’Hara is a computer scientist and philosopher, interested in the social and political context of technology, particularly the World Wide Web. During an academic career of 30 years, he specialised in studies of trust, privacy and open data.

Lunch + Learn with Daniel Dresner: 'Don't dump that risk on me'

'Free us from security tyranny! Why do you expect me to secure multi-million pounds worth of assets on my salary? Just let me do my job!'

In this talk, Danny discusses how setting unrealistic and unreasonable expectations that users will compensate for systemic flaws in information technology exacerbates security issues, and how we might redress the balance to improve cyber security.

About Daniel:

Daniel Dresner FCIIS is the first Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Manchester following 22 years with The National Computing Centre. He applies a diverse, community-based cyber security approach developing standards, championing SMEs’ cyber security for which he co-founded IASME, and works to find sociotechnical balance between people and technology.

Lunch + Learn with Emily C Collins: 'Where's the Trust? The Implications of Human Interactions for Trustworthy Robotics and AI'

Who are the users? Who are their employers? Who deploys the technology? And what do these mediating relationships have to do with knowing the best way to deploy RAI in the real-world?

In this talk, Dr. Collins will discuss the importance of understanding human interactions in RAI use.

About Emily:

Dr. Emily C. Collins is an interdisciplinary, experimentally rigorous, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) researcher. Her experise span biomimetic, brain-based, therapeutic, and industrial, robotics; HRI methodology development; and ethical and theoretical consideration of Robotics and AI (RAI).

Lunch + Learn with Digital Futures Emily C Collins: 'Through the Looking Glass?' The Collapse of Self/Other in AI Mental Health Apps.

In this talk, Dr Jennifer Cearns discusses how Generative AI is challenging some of the analytical frameworks we think about self and other with, specifically regarding the rapid rise of AI in mental health care.

About Jennifer:

Dr Jennifer Cearns is a digital anthropologist, specialising in AI and algorithms in social life. Her research focuses on how people relate to one another through emerging intelligent technologies, exploring the ideological and cultural underpinnings of these new formulations of the self, personhood and kinship.

About Digital Futures:

Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network that operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research. They aim to present a coherent overview of The University of Manchester's digital research activity to external stakeholders and bring together research communities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.