I’ve just been awarded Seed Funding to start creating an inter-disciplinary network on the theme of Inserting Ethics Into Autonomous Machines. Yay!
The idea is (initially) to have invited talks from multiple disciplines (e.g. law, philosophy, robotics, hci) to flesh out various aspects of ethics from an implementation perspective. What sort of ethical theories can/should be considered? How should they be implemented? How could we verify that a machine that claims to follow an ethical principle, is indeed ethical?
The School of Computer Science has kindly agreed to co-fund some of these talks, which means that we should be able to reimburse speakers from the EU, for flights as well as a night’s stay. Looking forward to an eclectic and thought-provoking set of talks.
If you have any ideas for speakers or topics, get in touch.