Exploring AI Ethics: A 90-Minute Deep Dive with a Cyberpsychological Lens

A collaboration with Loudoun County Public Library (LCPL)

By working with the Loudoun County's Public Library's events program folks, I led a content-rich, educational event focused on AI Ethics, which took place last night at the Brambleton branch in Ashburn, Virginia (home to the US's Data Alley).

Cyberpsychological focus

Unlike usual AI Ethics discussions, panels, or events that focus on safeguards and regulation, my AI Ethics session showcased a strong cyberpsychological emphasis. 

Thus, my content spanned a range of topics as they relate to AI Ethics, including:

• Mechanized "Superintelligence" vs organic human intelligence
• The marketing of AI and technology
• Extractivist impacts of large language models (LLM) and AI developments
• Transhumanism: Life and death in the expanding age of AI
• The Mining of the Human Brain: Trends and Implications

and more.

Afterwards

The feedback from both attendees and the library programming coordinator (shared below) underscores how essential this type of AI Ethics outreach, targeting everyday people and the general public, is towards advancing our AI literacy and ethical understandings.

Good morning, Mayra. I can’t stop thinking about your presentation last night! Thank you so much for sharing your unique insight on the topic. I would love to bring more programs on this subject to our branches so please don’t hesitate to reach out with more ideas and perhaps we can repeat the ethics program at Rust Library and even Cascades in a few months so that we can reach the other parts of our county. We might want to figure out a way to bring this topic to Science on Tap as well.

 

Thanks for all you do.

 

Lorraine 

LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Programming Coordinator

Thanks to all attendees

I appreciate all who attended and hope to see some of you at LCPL's upcoming AI series this Fall.

Until then,