Institute of Philosophy and DSIT: Responsible AI

Panel: Dr Alex Grzankowski, Prof Emma Borg, Prof Barry Smith

Chair: Prof Nick Shea

This second session turns from how AI systems work to the question of how they should be built, deployed, and governed. It focuses on concepts that most often shape public and policy discussion: hallucination, truthfulness, trust, bias, accountability, and responsibility. We aim to reframe them in a way that is both philosophically grounded and practically useful. The central theme is that responsible AI is not a single technical achievement but a series of tradeoffs and choices, each of which distributes risks differently, expressing a view about what we value.