Programme

Schedule

Time

08:00 - 08:15 Session 1: Workshop introduction and getting to know the participants (Mentimeter poll or personal introduction if few participants)

08:15 - 08:45 Session 1: Ethical, Legal and Technical Challenges and Considerations (Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway) 

08:45 - 09:30 Session 1: Invited talk by Prof. Alan Winfield: What would possibly go wrong? The case for social robot accident investigation 

Robot accidents are inevitable. Although rare, they have been happening since assembly-line robots were first introduced in the 1960s. But a new generation of social robots are now becoming commonplace. Unlike industrial robots, which are deployed in safety cages, social robots are designed to operate in human environments and interact closely with humans; the likelihood of robot accidents is therefore much greater for social robots than industrial robots. In this talk I will outline a draft framework for social robot accident investigation; a framework that proposes both the technology [1] and processes [2] that would allow social robot accidents to be investigated. I will position accident investigation within the practice of responsible robotics, and argue that social robotics without accident investigation would be no less irresponsible than aviation without air accident investigation.

[1] Winfield AF and Jirotka M. (2017) The case for an ethical black box. In Towards autonomous robotic systems (eds Y Gao, S Fallah, Y Jin, C Lekakou). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10454, pp. 262–273, Springer.

[2] Winfield AF, Winkle K, Webb H, Lyngs U, Jirotka M, & Macrae C (2021) Robot Accident Investigation: a case study in Responsible Robotics. In A Cavalcanti et al (eds), Software Engineering for Robotics, Springer. pre-print arXiv:2005.07474.

09:30 - 10:30 CASE  2025 Farewell Brunch 

10:30 - 11:00 Session 2: Praminda Caleb-Solly: Ethical issues related to job/role changes (across all sectors) and the criteria for evaluating performance for the new roles where people have to be responsible for validating robot behaviour and operation 

11:00–11:45 Session 2: Contributed presentations and interaction 

Ronald Arkin, Alan Wagner, Leete Skinner and Mark Hoffman: Towards Reliably Ethical Autonomous Weapon Systems

Sogol Balali, Jennifer Parham-Mocello, Brent Steel, Michael D. Jones and Waseq Billah: Robots in Public Spaces: Policy Challenges and Solutions Through the Narrative Policy Framework

11:45 - 12:00 Wrap-up, concluding remarks and future directions (by workshop organizers)