{"id":198,"date":"2021-09-09T20:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/ethicscenter\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:20:54","slug":"speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/ethicscenter\/speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethically Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-inverse media-background-container\"\n\t\t\tid=\"culture\"\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-background object-fit-cover\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2019\/08\/bg-think.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"h1 font-condensed mb-2 text-uppercase\">ETHICALLY SPEAKING<\/p>\n<p class=\"h2 font-condensed mb-3 text-uppercase\"><span class=\"text-primary\">An interdisciplinary speaker series on contemporary moral issues<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Gene editing. Artificial intelligence. A changing climate. Intersections of technology, values and communities in our rapidly changing world raise important ethical questions. Join us for a series of lectures by nationally renowned researchers, thinkers and leaders who will explore contemporary issues, ethically speaking.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-secondary mb-3 pt-4 pb-5\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"font-condensed h1 mb-5\">Schedule 2026-27<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"text-primary-aw h2 mb-4\">AI and the Right to Refusal: A Panel Discussion<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"img-fluid mr-4 mb-2 alignleft wp-image-1010 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/ethicscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/bhargava-150x150.png\" alt=\"Vikram Bhargava\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/ethicscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/bhargava-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/ethicscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/bhargava.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"font-size-lg\"><b>Vikram Bhargava, Ph.D.<\/b><\/span><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Strategic Management, Public Policy, &amp; Philosophy, School of Business, George Washington University<br \/>\nInternational Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Reputation<br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\" class=\"mt-4\"><span class=\"h5\">April 17, 2026 at 3pm Eastern<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"xxxx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John C. Hitt Library, Room 223, UCF Main Campus<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"btn btn-primary mb-4\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/ucf.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/pQuWdJM-R0KSN63AfDuovw\"\t\t\t\t\t\ttarget=\"_blank\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tParticipate via Zoom\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n<p>Many of the most widely discussed ethical concerns regarding AI algorithms pertain to bad outcomes: Were its decisions accurate? Were there unforeseen bad consequences? Were untoward biases reflected in the judgments of the algorithms? In this presentation, Dr. Bhargava will argue that even if these bad outcomes are ultimately engineered away, it still doesn\u2019t settle the question of whether managers should defer to algorithms. This is not because managerial gut instincts are far superior\u2014often they\u2019re not. Rather, there are important (and overlooked) ethical values that become evident when we make choices, and that process would be jeopardized if abdicated to an algorithm. This is so, no matter how sophisticated algorithms ultimately become at prediction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vikram R. Bhargava<\/strong> holds a joint Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Ethics &amp; Legal Studies (The Wharton School) and Philosophy (School of Arts and Sciences). He also is co-editor of the section on technology and business ethics in the <em>Journal of Business Ethics<\/em>. His research centers around the distinctive ethics and policy issues that technology gives rise to in organizational contexts. He is interested in technology addiction, mass social media outrage, hiring algorithms and the future of work, autonomous vehicles, and other topics related to artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Bhargava has been interviewed by NPR, the <em>Financial Times<\/em>, and the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> and has spoken at the Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Oxford. He also has written for popular audiences at the <em>San Francisco Chronicle, Al Jazeera, Thomson Reuters Foundation,<\/em> and <em>Newsweek<\/em>. He has won the Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty of the Year award, V.I.P. Professor Award, and the Career Influencer Award. He delivers annual visiting lectures on digital technology policy and ethics to graduate students at Dartmouth\u2019s Tuck School of Business and Thayer School of Engineering, and he has taught courses at Wharton on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"my-4\" \/>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"btn btn-secondary mt-4\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/ethicscenter\/past-events\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tView Events Archive\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid bg-fluid mb-0 py-5\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"h3 heading-underline\">Sponsors of Ethically Speaking<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled\">\n<li>Center for Ethics, UCF<\/li>\n<li>Colleges of Graduate Studies, UCF<\/li>\n<li>College of Science, UCF<\/li>\n<li>College of Community Innovation and Education, UCF<\/li>\n<li>CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, UCF<\/li>\n<li>College of Arts and Humanities, UCF<\/li>\n<li>Office of Compliance, Ethics, and Risk, UCF<\/li>\n<li>Department of Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>Department of Physics<\/li>\n<li>Department of Philosophy<\/li>\n<li>Department of Psychology<\/li>\n<li>Department of Biology<\/li>\n<li>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullscreen.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-198","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethically Speaking - UCF Center for Ethics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ethically Speaking lecture series, hosted by the UCF Center for Ethics features national-level ethics researchers. 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