The EBEN Annual Conference, co-hosted by the IEAI and the Catholic Academy in Bavaria and held from the 29th – 31st of May, was a resounding success with over 50 presentations and three insightful panels.
The first panel, moderated by Jacob Rendtorff, featured Christoph Lütge, Leire San-Jose, and Matthias Uhl, who discussed the role of legislation in aligning AI with human values through empirical evidence and practical implementations. The central thesis of the first panel emphasized the use of AI will often imply the surrendering of certain values such as the ability to ascribe reponsibly for better outcomes like predictive accuracy, but as ethicists, we should be well aware that the affected might choose systematically different trade-offs than our introspection suggests.
Raphael Max (fourth from the left) moderated the second panel on ethics and finance with Eberhard Schnebel, Leire San-Jose, and Christian Hauser, exploring the challenges of preventing fraud without hindering market efficiency.
The third panel on “Future Ethics for Globally Competitive Corporations”, was moderated by Björn Fasterling, focused on the future of European business ethics with Christoph Lütge, Marianne Thejls Ziegler, and Jacob Rendtorff. The panelists debated the transformation of ethics into legislation and the compatibility of paternalistic business ethics with fundamental ideals of deliberative democracy.
At the EBEN general assembly, Marianne Thejls Ziegler (third from the left) was elected to the EBEN Executive Committee. Special thanks to Martin Dabrowski and the Catholic Academy for hosting the conference at their spectacular venue. The beautiful setting elevated the spirit of the conference.