The Schedule

Event

AAAI Symposium Zoom Link Opens

Zoom Link to be provided to registered participants (Zoom sessions would be recorded)

Registration

Day 1 Session 1 (Moderator: Shannon Ellsworth)

• Opening Remarks (Organizing Committee Rep: Hsin-Fu Wu)

• Ice Breaker: Most Egregious Marketing Claim of “Ethical AI” (and Other Tales of "AI in the Wild") (Facilitator: Brett Israelsen)

• Presentation 1: Boiling the Frog: Ethical Leniency due to Prior Exposure to Technology (Noah Ari, Nusrath Jahan, Johnathan Mell, and Pamela Wisniewski)

Break (Zoom session remains open)

Day 1 Session 2 (Moderator: Shannon Ellsworth)

• Presentation 2: Working from the Middle Out: A Domain-Level Approach to Evaluating the Human Impacts of Machine Learning (Ryan Jenkins, Kristian Hammond, Sarah Loehr, and Leilani Gilpin)

• Presentation 3: Towards Unifying the Descriptive and Prescriptive for Machine Ethics (Taylor Olson)

Lunch (Zoom session remains open)

Day 1 Session 3 (Moderator: Hsin-Fu Wu)

• Presentation 4: Building Competent Ethical Reasoning in Robot Applications: Inner Dialog as a Step Towards Artificial Phronesis (John Sullins and Antonio Chella)

• Presentation 5: Automated Ethical Reasoners Must Be Interpretation-Capable (John Licato)

Break (Zoom session remains open)

Day 1 Concludes

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Pre-Symposium Day 2 Virtual Mingle

Day 2 Session 1 (Moderator: Shannon Ellsworth)

• Opening Remarks (Organizing Committee Rep: Hsin-Fu Wu)

• Presentation 7: Evidence of Fairness: On the Uses and Limitations of Statistical Fairness Criteria (Will Fleisher)

• Presentation 8: Doctrine and Ethics Compliant Autonomy Using An Ontological Framework (presentation) (Don Brutzman, Curt Blais, Hsin-Fu Wu, Richard Markeloff, and Carl Andersen)

Break (Zoom session remains open)

Day 2 Session 2 (Moderator: Shannon Ellsworth)

• Presentation 9: Meaningful Human Control and Ethical Neglect Tolerance; Initial Thoughts on How to Define, Model and Measure Them (Christopher Miller)

• Presentation 10: Risk-based continuous audit approach to AI Systems ethical compliance (Guy Lupo, Bao Quoc Vo, and Natania Locke)

Lunch (Zoom session remains open)

(Participants are encouraged to listen in on Ariel Greenberg's presentation via Zoom: "Enabling machines to reason about potential harms to humans" (Zoom link provided separately)

Day 2 Guest Speakers: (Moderator: Hsin-Fu Wu; Joint Session with the Symposium on "Closing the Assessment Loop: Communicating Proficiency and Intent in Human-Robot Teaming" (Co-Chairs: Mike Goodrich, Jacob Crandall)

Bertram Malle: On Robots That Explain, Justify, and Show Norm Awareness

Yejin Choi: The Promises and Perils of Computational Norms, Morals, and Ethics

Jason Stack: Ethic Computing in Military Applications - Weapons and Non-Weapons

Day 2 Closing Remarks (Organizing Committee Rep: Hsin-Fu Wu)

Hybrid Plenary Session Across Symposia

• In-Person: Stanford University

• Virtual: Zoom (Zoom link provided separately)

(Ethical Computing Symposium Plenary Speaker/Rep: Michael Salpukas)

Day 2 Concludes

AAAI Symposium Zoom Link Opens

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Pre-Symposium Day 3 Virtual Mingle

Day 3 Session 1 (Moderator: Shannon Ellsworth)

• Presentation 11: A Tiered Approach for Ethical AI Evaluation Metrics (Peggy Wu, Brett Israelsen, Kunal Srivastava, Hsin-Fu Wu, and Robert Grabowski) (video)

• Presentation 12: Meaningful Metrics for Demonstrating Ethical Supervision of Unmanned Systems (Don Brutzman and Curt Blais)

Closing Remarks (Organizing Committee Rep: Michael Salpukas)

Symposium Concludes