AGM followed by talk.
Speaker
Blay Whitby
Agenda
6:00pm - Food and networking
6:30pm - AGM
6:45pm - Talk The Ethics of Games and Games Design’, Blay Whitby
7:45pm - Questions and answers
8:30pm - Event ends
Synopsis
Sussex Branch AGM. This will be followed by a talk by Blay Whitby - making an examination of some of the ethical issues raised by computer games and VR.
Computer gaming is nearly as old as computing and now constitutes one of the largest and most profitable areas of the IT industry. Although IT ethics in general has now become a major research area, there is little work specifically on what is and is not ethically acceptable within the context of a game and the responsibilities of games designers for the nature of their games.
Are there limits to what is acceptable within a game?
What, if any, are the moral responsibilities of game designers to limit bad behaviour and/or encourage ethically good behaviour within the context of their products?
There have also been several moral panics about violent games causing real life violence, which serve to complicate any in-depth discussion of these issues. Lastly, there are also exciting possibilities that games and VR could be used to explore ethical consequences and make a positive ethical contribution.
This talk will attempt to give some answers to these questions and will be followed by a chance for the audience to challenge the answers and develop their own views.
About the speaker
Dr. Blay Whitby is philosopher and ethicist concerned with the social impact of new and emerging technologies. His work has done much to increase informed debate on ethical dilemmas posed by new technology in social and domestic settings.
His publications in this area include Automating medicine, the ethical way, Do you want a robot lover?, Oversold, unregulated, and unethical: Why we need to respond to robot nannies, On Computable Morality, and Sometimes it’s hard to be a robot.
He has published three books on the impacts of AI. Dr. Whitby is a member of the Ethics Group of BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT and an ethical advisor to The Royal Academy of Engineering and an ethics expert for the EU specializing in AI and robotics.
He is a regular speaker in academic, commercial, military, and community settings as well as having participated in several high impact science/art collaborations.
Dr. Whitby currently lectures at Imperial College, The Technical University of Vienna, and Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
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