Karabo Maiyane

Mr

PhD
IBS SCHOLARSHIP STUDENT.
DEGREES LINKED TO THIS RESEARCH GROUP:
1) 2020 - current PhD (Philosophy): (provisional title) 'Human Dignity as Deciding Factor for Artificial Morality';
2) 2018-2019 Master of Arts (Philosophy): 'Ethics of AI: Exploring a Virtue Ethics Framework for Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems';
3) 2017 BA (Honours) (Philosophy): 'The Possibility of Ascribing Artificial Moral Agency: The Case of Self-driving Cars'.

TALKS:
1) 'Virtue ethics as a solution to artificial moral reasoning in the context of lethal autonomous weapon systems' (Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR 2019));
2) 'Virtue ethics as a solution to artificial moral reasoning in the context of lethal autonomous weapon systems' (Fourth Industrial Revolution: Philosophical, Ethical and Legal Dimensions Conference 2019);
3) 'The use and abuse of autonomous weapons systems' (Amnesty International (UP Chapter) 2019 symposium);
4) 'An investigation on the moral status and use of Autonomous Weapons Systems in warfare' (PSSA 2019);
5) 'Responsible belief as a moral obligation and the quest for fair and transparent machine learning' (co-presented with Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem, Digital Humanities Southern Africa (DHASA));
6) 'Virtue ethics as a solution for artificial moral reasoning in autonomous weapons' (FAIR 2018);
7) Talks at CAIR/UP Symposium 2019 and 2018.


WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE:
1) 16-17 August 2018 – African states conference on nuclear weapons and autonomous weapons;
2) 09 July 2018 – African Seminar on lethal autonomous weapons systems.
University of Pretoria
  • CSIR
  • DSI
  • Covid-19