17 May 2022
Tobias Adrian
Day 1 lunch address ‘Global financial stability and market mood’
Speaker: Tobias Adrian; Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Tobias leads the IMF’s work on financial sector surveillance, monetary and macroprudential policies, financial regulation, bank resolution, debt management, and capital markets. Prior to joining the IMF, Mr. Adrian was a Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Associate Director of the Research and Statistics Group. At the Federal Reserve, he contributed to monetary policy, financial stability policies, and to crisis management. Furthermore, he has published extensively in economics and finance journals, including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Finance.
Personal reflections from Patrick Schotanus:
“When Tobias was still working at the New York Federal Reserve, with team members like Zoltan Pozsar (now at Credit Suisse), he published a number of insightful papers regarding liquidity, dealers, shadow banking, etc. Much of it was new to me so I send him the occasional email with comments and questions. He now covers markets, including their stability, at the IMF, and will share his latest reflections during a lunch keynote.”
Shannon Vallor
Evening dinner address ‘The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Humane Futures in an Age of Machine Thinking’
Speaker: Shannon Vallor; Professor in Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.
“Mirror images convey no smell, no depth, no softness, no fear, no hope, no imagination. What does the AI mirror erase from us? In this talk I explore the dimensions of our humanity that AI’s transformation of the socioeconomic order makes it harder for us to see in ourselves and in one another, and why our futures depend upon bringing these vital aspects of our humanity back into view.”
Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy. She serves as Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research includes advising academia, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI.
Personal reflections from Patrick Schotanus:
“As an expert on the ethics of AI, Shannon is much in demand. This is not just a leading topic for our times but reaches back to Adam Smith’s moral sentiments. In comments for a special on AI for the Financial Times, she warned that the concern should not be that AI is becoming too human but that humans are more and more behaving artificially, forced to adapt to the (e.g. social media) algorithms. She will deliver her keynote during a dinner in Adam Smith’s very own dining room in Panmure House.”
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