*** REVISED DEADLINE for EXTENDED ABSTRACTS ***
Deadline is revised to Wednesday January 26.
Submission is brief and simple -- up to 4 pages, by email.
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* Symposium on *
* ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ETHICS AND (QUASI-)HUMAN RIGHTS *
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** AISB'00 CONVENTION **
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** ``Time for AI and Society'' **
** April 17th - April 20th, 2000 **
** University of Birmingham, UK **
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The Convention is organized by the Society for the Study of Artificial
Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB).
The Symposium will take place over two consecutive days during the
Convention. Exactly which days those are will be decided nearer the
date.
Symposium URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/AISB-00/Rights/
Convention URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/aisb/
University of Birmingham URLs: http://www.bham.ac.uk
http://www.bham.ac.uk/general/intro/intro2.htm
(lead also to information about the City of Birmingham URL,
but see http://www.bcvb.org.uk/ as well)
The Convention will consist mainly of seven partially parallel symposia
and four plenary keynote talks (by ALAN BUNDY, GEOFFREY HINTON, MARVIN
MINSKY and AARON SLOMAN).
THE OTHER SYMPOSIA:
-- Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning
-- Starting from Society:
The Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems
-- Creative and Cultural Aspects of AI and Cognitive Science
-- Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics
-- AI Planning and Intelligent Agents
-- Designing a Functioning Mind
Further details are available from the Convention webpage (see above).
NATURE OF THE ETHICS/RIGHTS SYMPOSIUM
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The symposium is concerned with the ethical and rights issues that are
raised by AI. Some are as old as AI while some arise because of recent
developments. Some concern threats to human rights, others concern ways
in which AI could support human rights, some involve the detection of
unethicality, and yet others are about the rights, if any, of
intelligent artefacts. The issues range from the very practical to the
highly philosophical.
Human rights are an increasingly topical concern in world politics, and
a highly appropriate subject to address in 2000. The increase in the use
of computers and electronic communication, and the gradual increase in
the use of AI in computers and communication, is revolutionizing many
aspects of life, including in ways that deeply affect human rights and
raise new ethical issues (and old issues in new or intensified forms).
Specific issues for the Symposium include but are not limited to:
-- DANGERS FROM AI USAGE BY GOVERNMENT etc.
:: automated monitoring of conversations (phone, email, web) by
governments
:: automated plagiarism detection
:: responsibility for errors in expert systems and self-modifying
systems
:: does a welfare state have a duty to ensure
people have <I>human</I> teachers/lawyers/doctors...?
:: does you have the right to know you are speaking to an artefact
when seeking advice over the phone, etc?
-- BENEFITS
:: intelligent web crawlers for detecting danger to human rights,
e.g. detecting neo-Nazi organizations
:: a possible human-rights protection measure:
implants that report assaults on person to distal agencies
-- ENCOURAGEMENT OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR BY INDIVIDUALS
:: AI-aided misrepresentation of oneself over the web
:: use of AI in excessively violent computer games
-- THOUGHT ABOUT HUMAN ETHICS & RIGHTS
:: can artefacts think well about human ethics, or is human
grounding needed?
:: VR scenarios (aided by AI technology) as providing alternative
worlds in which to study ethical and rights issues
:: diminution of respect and rights for humans because of rise of
intelligent artefacts
-- RIGHTS OF ARTEFACTS
:: should intelligent artefacts have "human" rights?
:: to what extent does having rights require having consciousness?
:: is it ethical to create computer simulations of pain?
-- LEGAL ISSUES associated with any of the issues above.
Papers are welcomed on these and other issues. There is plenty of scope
for lively, interdisciplinary debate at the Symposium, as well as
opportunities for taking stock of the current situation and the
prospects for the next few years.
Please also see the
Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning
(http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/aisb/symposia/peterson.html)
in the same Convention.
SUBMISSIONS: DESTINATION AND FORMAT
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Papers will be selected by BLIND anonymous peer review of EXTENDED
ABSTRACTS whose length is equivalent to between TWO and FOUR A4 pages
(or 8.5in by 11in pages), including figure captions and foot/endnotes,
but excluding title etc., bibliography, acknowledgments and the
graphical bodies of figures.
A cover page or easily separable initial section should be supplied
listing the paper title and the authors' names and affiliations, but the
remainder of the document should NOT specify the authors or
affiliations. Be especially careful that names and addresses do not get
included at the end of an email submission. To the extent possible, the
body of the abstract should be written in such a way that the authors
and affiliations cannot readily be identified from the content or
citations.
Submissions should be sent to the Programme Committee Chair, specified
below.
Submissions should preferably be ONLY IN PLAIN-TEXT EMAIL -- please do
not send only an attachment in Word, Postscript, or whatever. Exceptions
can be made if you need to use special formatting or to include artwork.
TIMETABLE
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4-page Extended Abstract submission deadline:
Wednesday 26 January 2000
Extended Abstract acceptance/rejection:
Wednesday 2 February 2000
Camera-Ready Full Paper submission deadline:
13 March 2000
The full papers are for inclusion in a SYMPOSIUM
PRE-PROCEEDINGS to be published by AISB.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Prof. John Barnden (CHAIR)
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School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
U.K.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab
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Dr William Edmondson
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School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
U.K.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~whe/
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Prof. Karamjit S. Gill
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Division of Information Science
School of Info. Management
University of Brighton
Brighton BN2 4GJ
U.K.
http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/im/
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Editor of the journal AI & Society:
http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/research/seake/ai_soc.html
Dr Blay Whitby
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School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences
University of Sussex at Brighton
Brighton BN1 9QH
U.K.
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/blayw/
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THE UNIVERSITY AND CITY
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The University of Birmingham is a major civic university founded in 1900
with about 18,000 students of whom about 25% are postgraduates. It is
both research-led and research-leading.
The university is located on a pleasant and spacious campus, in a leafy
area a few miles south of the recently redeveloped City Centre and yet
only a short drive away from beautiful countryside. The campus has a
small railway station adjacent to it, connecting to the city centre and
to towns south of Birmingham. The city is well placed for access to all
parts of the UK, and is two hours by rail from London. It has an
international airport.
The city boasts excellent programmes of classical music, ballet and
theatre. Also, Stratford-upon-Avon with its world-renowned theatrical
productions is only a 40-minute drive from the campus. The University
also offers high-quality artistic, theatrical and musical venues.
For further information please use the web links given near the
beginning of this document.
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