[agents] Embedding AI in Society (Online Symposium)

[Munindar Singh]

Call for Abstracts

Rabb Symposium on Embedding AI in Society

Seeking Presentations for Free Online Symposium


[Update:Special Issue of AI & Society on Embedding AI in Society. 
Details below.]


Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a pervasive part of our lives. From 
autonomous vehicles and AI personal assistants to computer-assisted 
surgery and automated trading systems, we are relying on AI to help us 
make decisions and manage our personal and professional activities. In 
all these cases, AI promises improvements in productivity and safety. 
But AI does not operate in a vacuum. Given its integration into our 
daily lives and social institutions, AI is directly shaping 
socioeconomic structures and affecting the lives of many individual 
citizens in profound and often unpredictable ways. AI systems have the 
potential to reach deeply into our lives, affecting not just our 
productivity and safety but also our autonomy and dignity. In 
recognition of this vast potential for good and evil, we have organized 
a multidisciplinary symposium aimed at developing a deeper and more 
holistic understanding of how AI will and should alter society.


We invite submissions of extended abstracts up to 1500 words for our 
online symposium on Embedding AI in Society, part of the R. L. Rabb 
Science and Society Symposium series at North Carolina State 
University.Researchers from any discipline whose work relates to the 
social, political, and ethical dimensions of AI are invited to submit 
extended abstracts. The focus can be on conceptual or empirical work. 
Four themes are of particular interest:


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    Integrating ethics into AI decision making

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    Safety with and from AI systems

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    Providing transparency and respecting user privacy in data analysis

  *

    The future of employment in the age of AI


We interpret these themes broadly to include many types of applications 
of AI across multiple domains, including but not limited to autonomous 
vehicles, healthcare robots, policing algorithms, and AI personal 
assistants.


We are pleased to have the following keynote speakers join us at the 
symposium:


  *

    Joanna Bryson(Professor of Ethics and Technology, Hertie School)

  *

    Sylvester Johnson (Professor and Director of the Center for
    Humanities, Virginia Tech)

  *

    Benjamin Kuipers (Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,
    University of Michigan)

  *

    Frank Pasquale (Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School)


More information about these speakers is available at the Embedding AI 
in Society symposium website 
<https://sites.google.com/view/ai-society-at-nc-state/keynote-speakers?authuser=0>.


The extended abstract should describe the objective of the research, the 
main methods used, a summary of the primary evidence or arguments 
employed, and the overall conclusions or recommendations of the work. It 
should also indicate the perceived relevance to the issues of AI and 
society and the focus of the symposium. Please include 3-5 keywords. Up 
to two figures may be included if these are necessary to relate the main 
points of the paper.


The symposium will be held February 18-19, 2021. The deadline for 
abstract submissions is December 4, 2020and authors will be notified by 
January 15, 2021if they are invited to present their research at the 
symposium. Please submit your extended abstract, prepared for anonymous 
review, as a PDF file to the organizers ataisocietyncstate at gmail.com. If 
you have any questions, please contact the organizers at the same email 
address.


Registration for the Embedding AI in Society symposium is free. This 
event is organized by the AI & Society 
<https://sites.google.com/view/ai-society-at-nc-state/organizational-team?authuser=4>research 
team at North Carolina State University and supported by the R. L. Rabb 
Fund.


Good news: the Editor-in-Chief of AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, 
Culture and Communicationhas approved of a Special Issue on Embedding AI 
in Society, for which the symposium organizers will be guest editors. 
All scholars, whether presenting at the symposium or not, are invited to 
submit their papers for consideration in this Special Issue, which will 
be subject to all standard AI & Societyprocedures and review processes. 
For more information, see the Call for Papers 
<https://www.springer.com/journal/146/updates/18557018>.

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