Exploring AI Ethics: A 90-Minute Deep Dive Session (With a Cyberpsychology Emphasis)

Beyond mentorship

After successfully mentoring the All Tech Is Human pod from June-December last year, I sought to keep sharing the information forward and chose my own immediate back yard to start.

By working with the Loudoun County's Public Library's events program folks, I was able to organize 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 many AI Ethics discussions, panels, or events that focus heavily on safeguards and regulation, my own AI Ethics session incorporates a strong cyberpsychological emphasis. 

Thus, my content spanned a range of key 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

Next steps

At the time of this writing, I'm contemplating the launch of a targeted webinar series leverating much of the content from my session last night.

Until then, I'll be partaking in yet another AI series through Loudoun County library this Fall. Details on this event are forthcoming.

Questions? Want more info?

Stay tuned or drop me an email:

cyberpsychologist@ruizmcpherson.com

Until next time,

Mayra

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Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, PhD(c), MA, MFA

Advancing Humanity In An AI-Enabled & Media-Laden World

Cyber/Media Psychologist (dissertation in progress)

 cyberpsychologist@ruizmcpherson.com

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