At the 10th International Summer School on AI and Big Data, Prof. Rainer Mühlhoff will talk about The risk of secondary use: Challenges in the ethics and governance of AI.

Talk: The risk of secondary use: Challenges in the ethics and governance of AI

Data-driven AI – from machine learning in clinical research to customer-facing generative AI systems – are posing new ethical challenges and regulatory demands. After a brief overview to the field, I will debate a specific class of challenges from a perspective of data protection and the AI Act: The risk of harmful secondary use of trained AI models or model training data.

Harmful secondary use can lead to severe forms of discrimination, novel infringements of privacy, loss of trust and an increase of power-asymmetries between AI corporations and societies. I will outline some ethical and legal approaches such as predictive privacy and purpose limitation for models towards a solution.

Bio

Rainer Mühlhoff is Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Osnabrück. His work focuses on ethics, social philosophy, and data protection in the context of digital media. In interdisciplinary collaborations, he brings together philosophy, media studies, and computer science to analyze the interplay of technology, power, and social change.
Find Prof. Mühlhoffs website: here.