Atsushi Nakazawa Dept. of Intelligence Science and
Technology Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University, Japan
Jim Torresen |
ABSTRACT – A brief
description of the tutorial
Ethical considerations are
getting increased attention with regards to providing responsible
personalization for robots and autonomous systems. This is partly as a result of the currently limited deployment of such
systems in human support and interaction settings. There are many different ethical
considerations, and it is important to identify those relevant to one’s own work
within user modeling and
personalization. The tutorial will give an overview of the most commonly
expressed ethical challenges and ways being undertaken to reduce their impact
using the findings in an earlier undertaken
review supplemented with recent work and initiatives. The includes the
identified challenges in a “Statement
on research ethics in artificial intelligence”.
The tutorial will exemplify
the challenges related to privacy, security and safety
through several examples from own and others’ work. With tutorial presenters
from two different continents (Asia and Europe), the tutorial will cover the
views on ethical assessment across countries and cultures. Thus, it will illustrate
to what extent perspectives are similar and what are regarded as the most
important ethical aspects in the two countries.
The tutorial will also
contain interactive parts where the participants express and discuss their own
views on ethical considerations through polls and by providing comments and
questions as a part of the tutorial session.
KEYWORDS
Ethics, Robotics, Autonomous systems, Privacy, Security and Safety
Outline of the tutorial
structure
The main
content of the tutorial will be a presentation of the most
commonly expressed ethical challenges. This will be illustrated by
examples from own and others´ work. The tutorial will potentially also contain
some parts where participants discuss ethical challenges in small groups.
Further, opinions within the audience will be collected through using the
Kahoot! voting tool (responding using your smartphone to answer multiple-choice
quizzes).
Outline:
1. Introduction
and motivation
2. Ethical
challenges and considerations
3. How to
address ethical considerations in research including examples
4. Ethical
considerations in own research at Kyoto University and University of Oslo
5. Future
opportunities in ethics-related research
Learning objectives of the tutorial:
· Getting an overview of the most commonly expressed ethical considerations with regards
to adaptive systems and robots.
· Get insight into how ethics is
relevant within the research and development of autonomous systems.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work is partially supported by
The Research Council of Norway as a part of the INTROducing
Mental health through Adaptive Technology (INTROMAT)
project under grant agreement 259293, Collaboration on Intelligent
Machines (COINMAC) project, under grant agreement 309869, Vulnerability in the Robot Society
(VIROS) under grant agreement 288285, Predictive and Intuitive
Robot Companion (PIRC) under grant agreement 312333 and through its Centres of Excellence scheme, RITMO with project No. 262762.
Conference Name:ACM Woodstock
conference