With continuing advances in
artificial intelligence (AI) and the plausible opportunities it promises to
provide, a number of leading technology visionaries have expressed their
concerns over its far-reaching risks. During Fog World Congress 2018, Luciano
C. Oviedo, researcher at the Warwick Business School and Arizona State
University, will address this issue head on as he moderates the panel session: The
Social Impact of Emerging IoT/Fog/AI-enabled Technologies.
The panel will address one of many hot topics at Fog
World Congress, October 1-3, 2018 in San Francisco. Other highly anticipated
presentations and sessions include autonomous robotics, smart buildings and
manufacturing, security, blockchain, testbeds and fog standards.
"Elon Musk warned us that AI is far
more dangerous than nukes. So, what happens now that AI is quickly converging
with fog computing, IoT, 5G, blockchain and other highly anticipated
technologies?" said Oviedo. "This panel will explore latest thinking on crucial
topics such as: Who owns and controls passenger data generated in an autonomous
vehicle? Who is responsible for security to prevent it from being hacked? Who
is liable if there is a breach? Who chooses what decisions the algorithms make
in life-threatening situations? We'll discuss how organizations can get their
brains around questions aimed at promoting benefits of these technologies while
mitigating their risks."
The topic proved to be so popular
at last year's Fog World Congress that it will be delivered in two back-to-back
sessions this year. Joining Oviedo on this panel to explore the opportunities
and challenges from different perspectives are:
- Jonathan
Fox,
Director Strategy & Planning, Chief Privacy Office, Security &
Trust Organization, Cisco;
- Brian Green, Director,
Technology Ethics Santa Clara University;
- Ashwin
Krishnan,
CEO Ashwin Krishnan; and,
- Sotirios
Paroutis,
Professor of Strategic Management & Head of Strategy and International
Business Group, Warwick Business School.
Register here to attend
the session and the conference.
In
addition to a full slate of exciting speakers and keynotes, Steve "Woz" Wozniak,
Apple co-founder and inventor of the world's first personal computer, will
participate in a fireside chat with Helder Antunes, Chairman of the OpenFog
Consortium and Senior Director, Cisco, to discuss AI, IoT, fog and other
exciting technology topics.
Fog World Congress is the largest
gathering of fog computing leaders and edge influencers worldwide. It is
produced by the OpenFog Consortium in
collaboration with IEEE Communications Society. Attendees include technologists, data scientists,
application developers, educators, researchers, analysts, VCs and investors,
service providers, government agencies and enterprises representing a wide
variety of industries. The event provides a platform to showcase fog computing
use cases, architecture, standards, developments and research. Topics range
from: Intelligence on the edge, machine learning, infrastructure-as-a-service,
smart grid, intelligent IoT services, 5G, security, AI, smart city,
network/messaging, software infrastructure, mobile edge computing, the OpenFog Reference
Architecture and more. The event
culminates with Fog Tank, which showcases
leading innovators in fog technologies and applications as they take the center
stage with investors and VCs.
Another
exciting addition this year: autonomous mapping robots will be traversing and
mapping the venue floor in real-time for conference attendees. It will serve as
a live,
proof-of-concept demonstration to validate how fog systems
belonging to different domains can communicate with each other. These
proof-of-concept robots are designed based on the OpenFog Consortium OpenFog Reference Architecture,
which has been adopted in the IEEE standard for fog
computing.