AI and Society

The AAAI Spring Symposia at Stanford University are among the AI community’s most important get-togethers, especially for its experimental division. The years 2016, 2017, and 2018 were memorable highlights for machine ethics, robot ethics, ethics by design, and AI ethics, with the symposia „Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents“ (2016), „Artificial Intelligence for the Social Good“ (2017), and „AI and Society: Ethics, Safety and Trustworthiness in Intelligent Agents“ (2018) … As of 2019, the proceedings are no longer provided directly by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, but by the organizers of each symposium. Since summer 2021, the entire conference volume of 2018 is available free of charge. It includes contributions by Philip C. Jackson, Mark R. Waser, Barry M. Horowitz, John Licato, Stefania Costantini, Biplav Srivastava, and Oliver Bendel, among many others. It can be found via aaai.org/proceeding/01-spring-2018/.

Fig.: Animal-friendly robot cars were a topic in 2016