Opportunities & Risks for Future Emerging Technologies: The Path to 2030
Wed 25 Nov
|Zoom Webinar
In our rapidly evolving environment emerging technologies impact all dimensions of life. As part of our commitment towards the 2030 agenda, we are honoured to have our fantastic speakers share their in-depth insights on the benefits and challenges we may face in the next decades.
Time & Location
25 Nov 2020, 19:00 – 19:45 CET
Zoom Webinar
About the Event
The impact of Artificial Intelligence systems is already noticed in our daily lives: AI is widely used in the criminal justice system, law-enforcement, healthcare, and in the financial and employment sectors. Most notably, it is this emergent technology the one currently used in predicting and fighting epidemics, self-driving cars, and the automation of weapons. Ultimately, a consequential challenge of implementing AI tools relates to the interference of AI with fundamental rights. For all this and more, UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierres has legitimate grounds to fear that the next major war will begin with a massive cyber-attack which will target the military capacity of states and paralyse their basic infrastructure such as the electric networks. Thus, it is timely to explore the main risks coming from cyberspace and to look at the current legal and geopolitical challenges. In this event, our guest speakers Anda Bologa (Affiliated expert on…