AIRoNoS2020: AI and Robotics Normative Spheres: Towards a Sustainable Society and Technology 7 April 2020, part of the AISB Convention 2020 St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK, April 6-8, 2020 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aironos2020 |
Submission deadline | February 17, 2020 |
Notification of acceptance | February 24, 2020 |
Convention website | https://aisb20.wordpress.com |
Symposium website | https://sites.google.com/view/aisb-convention-2020/home |
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
“Communication and conversation”, this year’s theme for the AISB Convention, is a highly appropriate and timely theme for exploring aspects that are also at the heart of the AIRoNoS Symposium, namely the intersection – and thus, hopefully, conversation – among the normative spheres of science, technology, ethics and law. These normative spheres are urgently called upon to spell out the implications for our societies of the latest developments in science and technology and in particular in AI and robotics.
In the past years, an increasing number of human intellectual activities have been replicated through AI technologies. AI actions, based on intellectual processes, have led to such technologies being used in a multitude of support activities in businesses and services throughout the economy and society. Big data and machine learning have led to increased progress in machines offering ‘cognitive insight’, classifying information, identifying patterns, processing of natural language, to mention just a few. Moreover, intelligent machines share now physically, more and more, the same space as humans, with automated vehicles, care robots, surgical robots, hotel receptionists becoming a common encounter. While the support that such AI and robotics technologies can bring to human activities is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, the normative – ethical and regulatory - environment needed for welcoming such technologies is evolving at a much slower pace and, with few exceptions, mostly in a reactive rather than a proactive manner.
Against this backdrop, the AIRoNoS 2020 Symposium aims to focus the discussion on the ongoing debates and the most recent initiatives addressing the intersection of AI, robotics and the ethical and regulatory normative spheres, with a view to supporting thus the development of socially-mindful AI and robotics technologies. In so doing, the Symposium aims to generate a platform of debate that brings together AI and robotics scientists as well as social scientists so as to engage with each other within a multi-disciplinary environment.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The Symposium organisers invite submissions on all aspects of the ethical and/or regulatory issues related to AI and robotics and encountered within and outside of robotics labs. The issues covered include but are not limited to:
- ethical codes and guidelines in AI R&D environments;
- signals of the emergence of a new sense of ethics at the human/machine interface;
- relevant dimensions in considering the balance between human decisions and AI-based decisions;
- data-driven decision making and governance
- technologies for cyber security and privacy protection;
- ELS implications of autonomous robots;
- challenges derived from the AI enhancing of human senses and abilities;
- the challenges of re-distributing responsibility for accidents involving physical or digital AIs;
- access and exploitation of big data in relation to privacy and/or social justice;
- rights and incentives in developing socially-mindful AIs;
- from moral, to legal, to electronic personhood: ethical, legal and conceptual challenges;
- types of responsibility at the human/machine interface;
- machine ethics and law-abiding algorithms;
- transparency – the white box/black box conundrum – normative implications;
- ethical dimensions of stakeholder consultation in AI and robotics;
- creating the social space for discussing alternative visions of the society–technology dynamics;
- governance and regulation of new technologies – who does the shaping, owning, benefiting from it as well as who has access to it and gets to make decisions about it; reflecting on the impact of AI technologies on society – where should we start? A top-down or bottom-up approach?
SYMPOSIUM CHAIR
Dr Aurora Voiculescu, University of Westminster (Convenor/correspondent – a.voiculescu@westminster.ac.uk)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Dr Aurora Voiculescu, University of Westminster (Convenor/correspondent – a.voiculescu@westminster.ac.uk)
Dr Allison Gardner, Programme Director - Data Science Degree Apprenticeship, Keele University (Co-convenor)
Prof. Tony Prescot, Sheffield Robotics / University of SheffieldProf. David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, USA
Prof. Alan Winfield, Bristol Robotics Laboratory; Bristol University
Prof. Norihiro Hagita, Director, Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Kyoto
Prof. David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, USA
Prof. Joanna Bryson, Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
Prof. Susumu Hirano, Dean, Faculty of Global Informatics; Chuo University, Tokyo
Dr. Jack Stilgoe, Science and Technology Studies, University College London
(Additional members of the committee TBA)
INVITED SPEAKERS
TBA
FORMAT
The Symposium will run over one day (tbc) during which authors will present their papers. A poster session can also be held, usually over coffee time.
The Symposium will open with a 50-minutes keynote, followed by long (20 min talk, 5 min questions) and short (15 min talk, 5 min questions) talks. Where available, links to the papers will be provided in advance.
Participants registered for the AIRoNoS 2020 Symposium are welcome to attend all three days of the AISB 2020 Convention.
SUBMISSION GUIDLINES
- Extended Abstracts (700-1000 words)
- Short papers (2000-3000 words)
- Extended papers (4000-6000 words)
- Posters (one slide, and one page for the proceedings)
Page count excludes references.
Please use the ECAI format.
Full papers to be sent as camera-ready version after notification of acceptance (TBA).
PUBLICATIONS
Contributions will be peer-reviewed. Participants in the AIRoNoS 2020 Symposium will be invited to submit extended and reviewed contributions for a journal Special Issue publication.
KEY DATES:
Submission of papers/abstracts: 17 February 2020
Notification of acceptance: 24 February 2020
Camera-ready submission: 9 March 2020
Symposium date: 7 April 2020
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information on registration, fees and travel will be updated on the AISB 2020 Convention page.
CONTACT
For all questions related to the Symposium and paper submissions, please email the Symposium Chair at a.voiculescu@westminster.ac.uk