Mission
The mission of this workshop is twofold:
1. To identify ethical, legal and societal issues within robotics and automation.
2. To introduce and discuss technical methods for addressing these issues.
Intelligent robots come with promises of great value to society but can also be seen as threats in terms of job loss, increased social inequalities, transparency and privacy, age/race/gender bias in training or design, autonomous warfare, excessive delegation of decision-making, etc. This workshop aims to put forth a diversity of viewpoints from experts not only in robotics and AI but also disciplines that are close to the real-world use of robots: economics, social science, gender studies, and philosophy. Together we want to explore possible outcomes of increased uptake of intelligent robots, and contribute to ethical frameworks and good practices.
Attention to ethical issues in robotics in general, from transparency to privacy, jobs, discrimination and others, has been missing from large robotics conferences such as ICRA and IROS. The robotics community has been lagging behind on the discussion of these concerns. In this workshop we will, with the help of a multidisciplinary cast of invited speakers, think through some of the most important ethical issues and start a dialogue between technical researchers and philosophers, economists and social scientists. We will do this explicitly right from the organization of the workshop, which will consist of interleaved blocks of technical and issue-raising talks.
Special Issue
We are thrilled to announce a forthcoming research topic (i.e., special issue) in the journal "Frontiers in Robotics and AI", section "Ethics in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence". This special issue is connected to the theme of the workshop and is open to everyone (even if you did not submit a paper).
More details: Responsible Robotics: Identifying and Addressing Issues of Ethics, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Privacy and Employment
Submission deadline: November 24, 2020
Invited speakers
All times are Paris (CEST) time.
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10:30 - 11:00
Robot Accident Investigation: a case study in Responsible RoboticsAlan Winfield www
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11:00 - 11:30
Glass is the new black: Going Beyond High-Level GuidelinesAndreas Theodorou www
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11:30 - 12:00
Masculinity and autonomous vehiclesDag Balkmar www
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12:30 - 13:00
Labour market effects of artificial intelligenceHildegunn Kyvik Nordås www
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13:00 - 13:30
Privacy issues in roboticsChristoph Lutz www
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14:30 - 15:00
Dual use issues in roboticsLudovic Righetti www
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15:00 - 15:30
Ethical human-robot interactionAJung Moon www
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15:30 - 16:00
404. Expected plan not found.Tathagata Chakraborti www
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16:30 - 17:00
Methods for privacy-aware roboticsWilliam Smart www
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17:00 - 17:30
Value alignment in roboticsAnca Dragan www
Accepted papers
1. Tommaso Colombino, Shreepriya Shreepriya, Danilo Gallo, "Designing a robot platform for disabled employees: some practical ethical considerations" [PDF]
2. Júlia Pareto Boada, "Social robotics and the outsource of agency: untangling the ethical approach" [PDF]
3. Benjamin Krarup, Senka Krivic, Felix Lindner, Derek Long, "Towards Contrastive Explanations for Comparing the Ethics of Plans" [PDF]
4. P. Michael Furlong, "Autonomy and Economic Pressures to Minimize Costs Conflicts with a Consumer Economy" [PDF]
Schedule
Youtube playlist with all recorded talks and panel available here.
| Session 1: Responsible robotics and societal impact | ||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Opening (organizers) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Alan Winfield
University of West of England
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"Robot Accident Investigation: a case study in Responsible Robotics" (video) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Andreas Theodorou
Umea University
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"Glass is the new black: Going Beyond High-Level Guidelines" |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Dag Balkmar
Orebro University
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"Masculinity and autonomous vehicles" (video) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
NUPI
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"Labour market effects of artificial intelligence" (video) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Christoph Lutz
Norwegian Business School
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"Privacy issues in robotics" (video) |
| Session 2: Paper presentations | ||
| 13:30 - 13:40 | Tommaso Colombino, Shreepriya Shreepriya, Danilo Gallo Naver Labs Europe | "Designing a robot platform for disabled employees: some practical ethical considerations" (video) |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | Júlia Pareto Boada Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC) and Faculty of Philosophy (University of Barcelona) | "Social robotics and the outsource of agency: untangling the ethical approach" (video) |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Benjamin Krarup, Senka Krivic, Felix Lindner, Derek Long King's College London & Ulm University | "Towards Contrastive Explanations for Comparing the Ethics of Plans" (video) |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | P. Michael Furlong KBR Inc. | "Autonomy and Economic Pressures to Minimize Costs Conflicts with a Consumer Economy" (video) |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session 3: Ethics and methods for ethical robotics | ||
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Ludovic Righetti
University of New York
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"Dual use issues in robotics" (video) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
AJung Moon
McGill University
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"Ethical human-robot interaction" (video) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Tathagata Chakraborti
IBM
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"404. Expected plan not found." (video) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
William Smart
Oregon State University
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"Methods for privacy-aware robotics" (video) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Anca Dragan
University of California Berkeley
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"Value alignment in robotics" (video) |
| Session 4: Panel | ||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Panel discussion | (video) |
Organizers
Resources
This space serves as a resource for related initiatives and readings. It is curated by the organizers and invited speakers.
Please feel free to send any of the organizers an email if you think something should be added to the lists below.
Related initiatives, workshops and conferences
- ICRA 2020 workshop "How will Autonomous Robots and Systems Influence Society? Debate from technological, philosophical, ethical, legal, and social implications perspectives"
- CHI 2020 workshop "Fair & Responsible AI"
- ICRA 2019 workshop "Bias-sensitizing robot behaviours: A quest for Avoiding Harmful Bias and Discrimination by robots (AGAINST-19)"
- IROS 2019 workshop "What's wrong with my robot? Unlearning biases in robot design"
- IJCAI 2019 Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- ICAPS 2019 Workshop on Explainable Planning (XAIP-2019)
- Web Conference 2019 workshop "Recoding Black Mirror"
- CVPR 2019 Workshop on Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in Computer Vision
- ICAPS 2018 workshop "Explainable AI Planning (XAIP)
- Robophilosophy 2018
- ICRA 2014 workshop "Robotics and Military Applications: From Current Research and Deployments to Legal and Ethical Questions "
- ICRA 2011 workshop on Roboethics
- ICRA 2009 workshop on Roboethics
- ICRA 2007 workshop on Roboethics
- ACM Conference on Fairness Accoutability and Transparency (FAT*)
- ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society
Support
This workshop is supported by:
IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination