The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception in Blackwell Hall at 5.45pm.

Topics to be discussed at this seminar will include:

1. AI Governance and Ethics (Allan Dafoe and Carina Prunkl, Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy)
2. AI, Industry and Employment (Carl Frey, Oxford Martin School and Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute)
3. AI, Propaganda and Biased Reporting (Vidya Narayanan, Oxford Internet Institute and Rasmus Nielsen, Politics and Reuters Institute)

All staff and students are welcome, whatever their field. The event is free but please book via the following Eventbrite link to secure a place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethics-in-ai-seminar-series-tickets-89975660623

The second seminar of term will take place at 4pm on Monday of week 4 (10 February) and an additional seminar will also follow later in Hilary Term. Further details about both events will follow as soon as they are available.

If you would like to be added to the seminar mailing list, please contact Amy at admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.

Shevirah founder and CTO Weidman is a serial entrepreneur, penetration tester, security researcher, speaker, trainer, and author. She holds a MS in computer science as well as holding CISSP, CEH, and OSCP certifications. Her work in the field of smartphone exploitation has been featured internationally in print and on television. She has presented or conducted training around the world including venues such as NSA, West Point, and Black Hat. Weidman founded Bulb Security LLC, a security consulting firm specializing in security assessments/penetration testing, security training, and research/development. She was awarded a DARPA Cyber Fast Track grant to continue her work in mobile device security culminating in the release of the open source project the Smartphone Pentest Framework (SPF). She founded Shevirah Inc. to create product solutions for assessing and managing the risk of mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) in the enterprise and testing the effectiveness of enterprise mobility management solutions and is a graduate of the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator. She is the author of Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking from No Starch Press. She was the recipient of the 2015 Women’s Society of CyberJutsu Pentest Ninja award. She is on the board of advisors of the angel backed security training startup Cybrary, an adjunct professor at Tulane University and the University of Maryland University College, a member of the CyberWatch Center's National Visiting Committee, and served as a judge for the FTC’s 2017 Home Inspector IoT security challenge. Weidman is also occasionally an angel investor in cybersecurity startups.