Mark Surman
The web is one of our most valuable public resources — it’s Mark Surman’s job to protect it. Mark serves as Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, a global community that does everything from making Firefox to taking stands on issues like online privacy. Mark’s biggest focus is building the movement side of Mozilla: rallying the citizens of the web, building alliances with likeminded organizations and leaders, and growing the open internet movement.
Before Mozilla, Mark was the Managing Director of telecentre.org and president of boutique consulting firm Commons Group. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship, where he explored how to apply open source approaches to philanthropy. Mark lives in Toronto with his sons, Tristan and Ethan.
16 June 2020 16 June 2020
The Ethical Questions Raised by the Rise of AI
Ayanna Howard, world-renowned roboticist and Chair for Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, will help you step into the future to explore how AI and robotics will impact on the development of humanity in the near future and the fundamental questions they raise about what we should do with these systems, what we should allow them to do, what risks they involve, and how we can manage these. This session will be moderated by Robert Wolcott, co-founder of The World Innovation Network, and professor of innovation at Chicago Booth. The conversation will explore topic such as:
- Privacy and surveillance
- Biases in decision making
- Human-robot interaction
- Automation’s impact on employment
- The opacity of AI systems and algorithms
16 June 2020 16 June 2020 - Links
The Ethical Questions Raised by the Rise of AI
Ayanna Howard, world-renowned roboticist and Chair for Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, will help you step into the future to explore how AI and robotics will impact on the development of humanity in the near future and the fundamental questions they raise about what we should do with these systems, what we should allow them to do, what risks they involve, and how we can manage these. This session will be moderated by Robert Wolcott, co-founder of The World Innovation Network, and professor of innovation at Chicago Booth. The conversation will explore topic such as:
- Privacy and surveillance
- Biases in decision making
- Human-robot interaction
- Automation’s impact on employment
- The opacity of AI systems and algorithms