Conference: Artificial Intelligence: Intelligence vs Ethics

Program:

10.00 Ms. Maria Gabriel – EU Commissioner Digital Economy & Society

10.25 Assoc. Prof. Georgi Valtchev - Vice-rector, SOFIA UNIVERSITY

10.30 Col. Assoc. Prof. Dimitar Tashkov - Vice-rector, NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY

10:35 Ambassador, Assoc. Prof. Zdravko Popov - President, PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE

10.40 Assoc. Prof. Velizar Shalamanov - DEFENCE & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY INSTITUTE

10:45 Blitz-discussion

FIRST PANEL: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ETHICS IN THE CONTEXT OF DEFENCE AND SECURITY

10:50 Assoc. Prof. Boris Grozdanoff, DEFENCE & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY INSTITUTE

“The Ethical AI: from good deeds to war games”

11:10 Dr. Boris Gurov, ERI, BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

“Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours: putting game theory and AI on
converging paths”

11:30 Dr. Todor Dimitrov, NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY

“Artificial intelligence in naval operations”

11:50 Assoc. Prof. Rossen Lutskanov, ISSK, BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

“There is no artificial intelligence: the philosophy of AI beyond the big divide”

12:10 – 13:30 Lunch break

SECOND PANEL: LOGIC, RATIONALITY AND ETHICS

13:30 Dr. Tatyana Novossiolova, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY

“Science professional responsibility in an age of dual-use research: the role of active learning in promoting practice-based competence”

13:50 Dr. Alexander Lazarov, PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE

“The Artificial Intelligence Human-like Design Framework”

14:10 Assoc. Prof. Anton Gerunov, SOFIA UNIVERSITY

“The AI-run economy: some ethical issues”

14:30 Assoc. Prof. Silvia Serafimova, ISSK, BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

“Whose morality? Which rationality? Challenging artificial intelligence as a remedy for the lack of moral enhancement”

14:50 Dr. Yordan Yankov, PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE

“Intelligence as a distributed process”

15:00 – 15:30 Discussion and closing remarks