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<div>INVITATION SYMPOSIUM</div>
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<div>=== Being human in the digital society: on technology, norms and us ===</div>
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<div>Date: November 21st 2022</div>
<div>Location: online and at TU Delft, The Netherlands</div>
<div>Keywords: AI value alignment, normative and socially aware agents, hybrid intelligence, support agents</div>
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<div>Registration: <a href="https://ii.tudelft.nl/coresaepregistration/">https://ii.tudelft.nl/coresaepregistration/</a></div>
<div>Website: <a href="https://ii.tudelft.nl/coresaep/index.php/symposium/">https://ii.tudelft.nl/coresaep/index.php/symposium/</a> </div>
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<div>Featuring a panel on ‘AI value alignment: reasoning or learning?’ and an invited talk on normativity in the context of neurodiversity & technology.</div>
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<div>OCCASION & TOPIC</div>
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<div>The symposium ‘Being human in the digital society: on technology, norms and us’ is organized in conjunction with the PhD defence of Ilir Kola, to celebrate the conclusion of the CoreSAEP project (Computational Reasoning for Socially Adaptive Electronic
Partners). CoreSAEP is an NWO Vidi personal grant that was awarded to Birna van Riemsdijk in 2014 to investigate software that takes into account personal norms and values.</div>
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<div>The project was awarded in a time where the idea of aligning the behavior of digital technologies with personal norms and values raised some eyebrows. Since then, advances in sensor technology and AI have enabled creation of digital technologies that are
more and more interwoven with almost every aspect of our daily lives, collecting data about us and influencing our behavior. This raises questions about how we want to shape this hybrid digital society: how to maintain agency in how we shape our lives with
digital technologies, how to account for diversity of people and social contexts, and how to ensure our digital technologies leave space for what they cannot understand?</div>
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<div>In this symposium we will take you along on the journey we have taken over the past years in addressing these questions. Our approach is inspired by research on normative multiagent systems. It bridges knowledge representation & reasoning with human-computer
interaction, and employs machine learning for those aspects which are hard to model explicitly. We will share our insights on the importance of creating computational models that are meaningful for people, using human-grounded methods for developing these
models, and interactive human-machine meaning making for value alignment. The symposium will feature talks by (former) project members and related researchers, as well as a panel discussion on the topic ‘AI Value alignment: reasoning or learning?’. It is followed
by the public PhD defence of Ilir Kola.</div>
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<div>PRACTICAL INFORMATION</div>
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<div>Date: November 21st 2022</div>
<div>Location: hybrid event, attendance online or at TU Delft</div>
<div>Fee: no registration fee.</div>
<div>Registration: <a href="https://ii.tudelft.nl/coresaepregistration/">https://ii.tudelft.nl/coresaepregistration/</a></div>
<div>Website: <a href="https://ii.tudelft.nl/coresaep/index.php/symposium/">https://ii.tudelft.nl/coresaep/index.php/symposium/</a> </div>
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<div>Programme:</div>
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<div>09:30-10:00 Welcome and Opening</div>
<div>10:00-10:30 Invited talk Caroline Bollen: “Both different and the same: valuing neurodiversity in technology development”</div>
<div>10:30-10:45 Birna van Riemsdijk: Human-machine alignment via person-centered models, methods and meaning making</div>
<div>10:45-11:00 Ilir Kola: Deriving norms and values through Social Situation Awareness</div>
<div>11:00-11:30 Coffee Break</div>
<div>11:30-12:00 Myrthe Tielman and Pei-Yu Chen: Understanding and aligning with users: from modelling values to alignment dialogues</div>
<div>12:05-12:45 Panel: ‘AI Value alignment: reasoning or learning?’</div>
<div>12:45-13:00 Closing</div>
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<div>13:00-14:00 Lunch</div>
<div>15:00-17:00 PhD defence Ilir Kola: 'Enabling Social Situation Awareness in Support Agents'</div>
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<div>ORGANIZERS</div>
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<div>Birna van Riemsdijk (University of Twente, chair)</div>
<div>Myrthe Tielman (TU Delft, local organization chair)</div>
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Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk <br>
Associate professor Intimate Computing<br>
University of Twente<br>
Website: https://intimate-computing.net<br>
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