Special Track on Implementing Machine Ethics at EUMAS 2024

EUMAS 2024 is being held at School of Computer Science, University College Dublin in August’2024. The Call for Papers is out, and I’m super excited to announce that they have a special track on implementing Machine Ethics, being led by yours truly, Marija Slavkovik (University of Bergen) and Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen (University of Leeds). Looking forward to all the exciting work being done in this area!!

Submit your papers at: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=eumas2024

Paper submission deadline: 15 May 2024 (AoE)

Here’s the blurb from the conference website:

Submissions are solicited on, but not limited to, the following themes / questions:

  1. What kinds of values and value-conflicts are (in)expressible in algorithmic form?
  2. Can ethical behaviour be guaranteed or verified in computational media?
  3. Implementation of ethical reasoning mechanisms founded on non-western ethical traditions
  4. Can artificial moral decision-making be decoupled from mere implementation of normative ethical theories?
  5. Privacy and Trust relationships between humans and machines in the presence of hybrid actions
  6. Implementation of ethical reasoning in logic-based methods
  7. Representation of ethical principles in AI agents
  8. Machine-learning based approaches to ethical reasoning
  9. Development of machine ethics in cognitive robot programs
  10. Robot learning for ethical reasoning
  11. Integration of symbolic and neural information systems for ethical reasoning
  12. Development of formal frameworks for ethical decision-making
  13. Techniques for explaining the ethical reasoning of AI agents
  14. Frameworks for ethical collaboration between humans and AI agents
  15. Building trust in intelligent systems through ethical design and interaction

The Programme Committee consists of the following:

  • Michael Anderson, University of Hartford
  • Selmer Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
  • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester
  • Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales
  • Yang Song, University of New South Wales
  • Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics Japan
  • Leon van der Torre, University of Luxembourg
  • Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Sorbonne, France
  • John P. Sullins, Sonoma State University
  • Kevin Baum, University of Saarbrucken
  • Edmond Awad, University of Exeter
  • John Horty, University of Maryland
  • Pere Pardo, University of Luxembourg
  • Thomas Powers, University of Delaware
  • Juan Carlos Nieves, Umea University
  • Ryan Tonkens, Lakehead University
  • Paul Formosa, Macquarie University, Australia

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