2024 Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics Virtual Winter School

AI and its Ethical Challenges: Religious and Cultural Perspectives

In Collaboration with

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge

Organizers

Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) 

Islamic Ethics is one of the emerging scholarly fields with promising growth potential in academic research and with great appeal among the general public. The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) has been contributing to this emerging field in various ways. Besides organizing international conferences and research seminars, CILE also contributed to the field through pioneer academic initiatives. In collaboration with the renowned publisher Brill, CILE established the Journal of Islamic Ethics and the book series Studies in Islamic Ethics. CILE launched the first-of-its-kind M.A. program “Applied Islamic Ethics” in the academic year 2019-2020 in the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. The program addresses how Islam, as a world religion with a rich moral tradition, engages with and contributes to the global moral discourse. Its strong interdisciplinary character combines in-depth knowledge of both theoretical and applied ethics rooted in the Islamic moral tradition. 

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) is a highly interdisciplinary research center exploring the nature, ethics and impact of artificial intelligence (AI).

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, LCFI is based at the University of Cambridge, with spokes at Imperial College London and University of California, Berkeley, as well as close links with industry and policymakers. LCFI brings together academics from a variety of disciplines as diverse as machine learning, philosophy, history, literary studies, engineering, media studies and design in order to explore the possibilities of AI in both the short and long term. 

Speakers and Facilitators 

In order to adequately cover the various aspects and dimensions of AI Ethics, the speakers in this Winter School will come from different specializations and have different research interests, including Philosophy, Bioethics, Islamic Ethics, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Social and Cultural Studies. The current provisional list of speakers will include the following:

• Dr. Mohammed Ghaly: Professor of Islamic Bioethics (CILE)
• Dr Eleanor Drage: Senior Research Fellow (LCFI)
• Dr. Samer Rashwani: Senior Researcher (CILE)
• Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib: Associate Professor of Methodology and Ethics (CILE)
• Dr. Aisha Sobey: Research Program Coordinator and Research Fellow (LCFI)
• Dr. Reham Hosny: Associate Fellow (LCFI)
• Dr. Amy Gaeta: Research Associate at (LCFI)
• Dr Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska: Research Associate (LCFI)

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