Program
Thinking Fast and Slow and Other Cognitive Theories in AI

AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium

All AAAI 2022 Fall Symposia are taking part as in-person events.

Registration

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Symposium are available here.

Thursday, November 17

09:15 am - 09:30 am Introduction: 15 min. Francesca Rossi

09:30 am - 10:10 am Chair: Francesca Rossi

Long talk: 40 mins

              • Susan Epstein. Playing for More than the Win

10:10 am - 10:30 am Chair: Francesca Rossi

Fireside Chat with the Speaker

10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 11:20 am Chair: Nicholas Mattei

1 talks: (15 mins + 5 mins Q&A) x1

  • Francesco Fabiano, Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini, Lior Horesh, Andrea Loreggia, Keerthiram Murugesan, Vishal Pallagani, Francesca Rossi and Biplav Srivastava. Epistemic Planning in a Fast and Slow Setting

11:20 am - 12:30 pm Chair: Nicholas Mattei

Open mic session initiated by Expressions-of-Interest speakers: 50 mins

    • Aditya Johri. Culturally Situated Theories of Cognition for Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    • Adam Dahlgren Lindström, Wendy Mackay and Virginia Dignum. Thinking Fast and Slow in Human-Centered AI

    • Max Griffiths. Expression of interest: Thinking Fast and Slow and Other Cognitive Theories in AI

12:30 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Break

02:30 pm - 03:10 pm Chair: Marianna B. Ganapini

Long talk: 40 mins.

  • Jason D'Cruz, William Kidder and Kush Varshney. The Empathy Gap: Why AI Can Forecast Behavior But Cannot Assess Trustworthiness

03:10 pm - 03:30 pm Chair: Marianna B. Ganapini

Fireside chat with the speaker

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Coffee Break

04:00 pm - 04:40 pm Chair: Marianna B. Ganapini

2 talks: (15 mins + 5 mins Q&A) x2

  • Marianna Ganapini, Murray Campbell, Francesco Fabiano, Lior Horesh, Jonathan Lenchner, Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi, Biplav Srivastava and Kristen Brent Venable. Combining Fast and Slow Thinking for Human-like and Efficient Navigation in Constrained Environments

  • Alessandro Umbrico, Amedeo Cesta, Francesca Fracasso, Andrea Orlandini and Gabriella Cortellessa. Shaping Cognitive Control for HRI through the Dual Process Theory

04:40 pm - 05:30 pm Chair: Marianna B. Ganapini

Open mic session initiated by Expressions-of-Interest speakers: 50 mins

    • Georgina Curto Rex. Thinking Fast and Slow in AI for Fairness Decision Making

    • Bogdana Rakova. Understanding Friction Between AI System 1 and System 2

06:00 pm - 07:00 pm Opening Reception

Friday, November 18

09:30 am - 10:10 am Chair: Biplav Srivastava

Long talk: 40 mins

              • Daniel Cunnington, Mark Law, Jorge Lobo and Alessandra Russo. Inductive Learning of Complex Knowledge from Raw Data

10:10 am - 10:30 am Chair: Biplav Srivastava

Fireside Chat with the Speaker

10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 11:40 am Chair: Brent K. Venable

2 talks: (15 mins + 5 mins Q&A) x2

  • Aditya Gulati, Miguel Angel Lozano, Bruno Lepri and Nuria Oliver. BIASeD: Bringing Irrationality into Automated System Design

  • Christopher McClurg, Alan Wagner and Sarah Rajtmajer. Construal Level Theory for Agent-based Planning

11:40 am - 12:30 pm Chair: Brent K. Venable

Open mic session initiated by Expressions-of-Interest speakers: 50 mins

    • Minal Suresh Patil. Modelling Control Arguments via Cooperation Logic in Unforeseen Scenarios

    • Roman Barták. Are Models and Formal Reasoning Still Needed in AI?

    • Michael Maynord, Eadom Dessalene and Yiannis Aloimonos. Bridging the Symbol to Signal Gap with Feedback

12:30 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Break

02:30 pm - 03:10 pm Chair: Nicholas Mattei

Long talk: 40 mins.

            • Breno William Carvalho, Luis Lamb and Artur D'Avilla Garcez. Graph-Based Neural Modules to Inspect Attention-Based Architectures, A Position Paper

03:10 pm - 03:30 pm Chair: Nicholas Mattei

Fireside Chat with the Speaker

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Coffee Break

04:00 pm - 04:40 pm Chair: Luis Lamb

2 talks: (20 mins + 5 mins Q&A) x2

04:40 pm - 05:30 pm Chair: Luis Lamb

Open mic session initiated by Expressions-of-Interest speakers: 50 mins

    • Stefan Harrer. Integration of Assistive AI System 1 and System 2 Technology in Clinical, Human Decision-making Workflows: Capabilities, Coordination, and Adoption Hurdles

    • Ilya Kovalenko, James Moyne, Dawn Tilbury and Kira Barton. Applying Cognitive Theories in AI to Develop Control Strategies for Manufacturing Systems

06:00 pm - 07:00 pm Plenary Session

Saturday, November 19

09:00 am - 09:15 am Summary from Previous Days

09:15 am - 10:00 am Chair: Brent K. Venable

10:00 am - 10:45 am Chair: Luis Lamb

Yoshua Bengio. Deep Networks with Higher-Level Cognition Inductive Biases

10:45 am - 11:15 am Coffee Break

11:15 am - 12:00 pm Chair: Francesca Rossi

Gary Marcus. The Slow Road to Artificial General Intelligence

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Wrap-up: Summary and Next Steps