Tentative Program

ICRES 2018

Program

(tentative)

Day 1
Day 2

Overview

Day	Slot	Program
August 20, 2018	Morning	Keynote 1 : John C. Havens, Creating the Modern Standard for Ethical A/IS
August 20, 2018	Afternoon	Keynote 2 : Rodolphe Gélin Fear of Robots: Are Roboticists Victims or Guilty?
August 21, 2018	Morning	Keynote 3 : Paul Scharre Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
August 21, 2018	Afternoon	Keynote 4 : Paul Bello Toward Human-Level Moral Cognition in a Computational Cognitive Architecture Debate #1 : Bringsjord vs. Hendler Would You Sign a Call to Ban Autonomous, Lethal Robots/AIs? Bringsjord vs. Hendler ... Would You Sign a Call to Ban Autonomous, Lethal Robots/AIs? face to face and unfettered on ... A Debate on The Question, @ ICRES 2018 Bringsjord: "No — & I never would!"; Hendler : "Yes — & I already did!";

Day 1

August 20, 2018

Day	Slot	Program	Time	Talk
August 20, 2018
			8:00–09:00	Breakfast and Registration
	Morning		9:00–9:20	Welcome Remarks
		Keynote 1	9:20–10:20	John C. Havens, Creating the Modern Standard for Ethical A/IS
		Session 1	10:20–10:50	Anouk van Maris, Nancy Zook, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Matthew Studley, Alan Winfield and Sanja Dogramadzi. Ethical Considerations Of (Contextually) Affective Robot Behaviour
			10:50–11:20	Daniel Kasenberg, Vasanth Sarathy, Thomas Arnold, Matthias Scheutz and Tom Williams. Quasi-Dilemmas for Artificial Moral Agents
			11:20–11:50	Atriya Sen, Paul Mayol, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu, Selmer Bringsjord Biplav Srivastava and Kartik Talamadupula, . For AIs, Is it Ethically/Legally Permitted That Ethical Obligations Override Legal Ones?
			11:50–12:10	Coffee break
		Session 2	12:10–12:40	Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu, Selmer Bringsjord and Rikhiya Ghosh. Virtue Ethics via Planning and Learning
		Session 2	12:40–13:10	John Licato and Zaid Marji. Probing Formal/Informal Misalignment with the Loophole Task
			13:10–14:40	Lunch
	Afternoon	Keynote 2	14:40–15:40	Rodolphe Gélin Fear of Robots: Are Roboticists Victims or Guilty?
		Session 1	15:40–16:10	Shai Ophir. Moral Decisions by Robots by Calculating the Minimal Damages Using Verdict History
			16:10–16:40	Jim Torresen, Trenton Schulz, Md. Zia Uddin, Weria Khaksar and Edson Prestes. Robot Companions for Older People – Ethical Concerns
			16:40–17:10	Ben Zevenbergen, Mark Finlayson, Mason Kortz, Ugo Pagallo, Jana Schaich Borg and Tjaša Zapušek. Appropriateness and Feasibility of Legal Personhood for AI Systems
			17:10–17:30	Coffee break
		Session 2	17:30–18:00	Selmer Bringsjord, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu and Atriya Sen. Demystifying "Value Alignment": Formally Linking Axiology to Ethical Principles in a Deontic Cognitive Calculus
		Session 2	18:00–18:30	Martin Cunneen and Martin Mullins. Framing Risk, the new Phenomenon of Data Surveillance and Data Monetisation; from an ‘Always On’ Culture to ‘Always On’ Artificial Intelligence Assistants
			19:30–22:00	Banquet

Day 2

August 21, 2018

Day	Slot	Program	Time	Talk
August 21, 2018
			8:00–09:00	Breakfast and Registration
	Morning		9:00–9:30	Organization Remarks
		Keynote 3	9:30–10:30	Paul Scharre Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
		Session 1	10:30–11:00	Endre Kadar. Janus-Headed Robotics: Dilemmas and paradoxes in robot ethics
			11:00–11:30	Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams. Robot: Asker of Questions and Changer of Norms?
			11:30–12:00	Matthew Peveler, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu and Selmer Bringsjord. Towards Automating the Doctrine of Triple Effect
			12:00–12:20	Coffee break
		Session 2	12:20–12:50	Pedro Henrique Oliveira Dos Santos and Dante Augusto Couto Barone. Similarities in Recent Works on Safe and Secure Biology and AI Research
		Session 2	12:50–13:20	Bram van Heuveln. Robotics as Experimental Cognitive Science?
			13:20–14:50	Lunch
	Afternoon	Keynote 4	14:50–15:50	Paul Bello Toward Human-Level Moral Cognition in a Computational Cognitive Architecture
		Session 1	15:50–16:20	Isabel Ferreira. Revisiting the concept of [Work] in the Age of Autonomous Machines
			16:20–16:50	Dominik Boesl and Martina Bode. Why do We Need Robotic & AI Governance? An Analysis of the (Socio-) Economic Implications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
			16:50–17:20	Martin Ciupa and Keith Abney. AI Conceptual Risk Analysis Matrix (CRAM)
			17:20–17:40	Coffee break
		Session 2	17:40–18:30	Bringsjord vs. Hendler ... Would You Sign a Call to Ban Autonomous, Lethal Robots/AIs? face to face and unfettered on ... A Debate on The Question, @ ICRES 2018 Bringsjord: "No — & I never would!"; Hendler : "Yes — & I already did!";
		19:30–?	Concluding reception (no host) at Brown's Brewing Co, (Troy, 417 River St, @ The Trojan Room)