Ethical AI in the Cloud: Responsibility, Professionalism, and the Challenge

**Ethical AI in the Cloud: Responsibility, Professionalism, and the Challenge of Distributed Accountability
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As AI development and deployment move increasingly into the cloud, questions of ethical responsibility become more complex. Cloud infrastructure has blurred the traditional boundaries between developer, provider, and user — making it harder to determine who holds moral and professional responsibility when AI systems produce unintended or problematic outcomes.

In this talk,Dr. Blay Whitby explore how long-established codes of professional ethics for computing (such as those of the BCS, ACM, and IEEE) apply in today’s cloud environment. The discussion might cover the moral implications of “AI as a service,” the shared responsibilities between cloud engineers and platform providers, and the importance of professional judgement when working with opaque, large-scale systems.

By bridging AI ethics and cloud practice, it would invite attendees to consider how technical expertise and ethical reflection must evolve together in a distributed, cloud-driven world.

About the speaker

Dr. Blay Whitby is philosopher and ethicist concerned with the social impact of new and emerging technologies. His work has done much to increase informed debate on ethical dilemmas posed by new technology in social and domestic settings.
Recently retired as chair of BCS Sussex Branch, Dr. Whitby is a member of the Ethics Special Interest Group of BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT and an ethical advisor to The Royal Academy of Engineering and an ethics expert for the EU - specializing in AI and robotics.
He is a regular speaker in academic, commercial, military, and community settings as well as having participated in several high impact science/art collaborations.

His publications in this area include Automating medicine, the ethical way, Do you want a robot lover?, Oversold, unregulated, and unethical: Why we need to respond to robot nannies, On Computable Morality, and Sometimes it’s hard to be a robot. He has published three books on the impacts of AI.

Dr. Whitby has held teaching posts at Imperial College, The Technical University of Vienna, Sussex University, and Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

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