The 2nd edition of the Responsibility Matters Workshop Series (RMWS) explores the topic of “Responsible Robotics” at the crossroads between agency, virtues and art, with respect to moral, social and environmental stakes in an era in which robotic AI systems are beginning to permeate our day-to-day lives, from the job market and transportation, to education, artistic production, accessibility, surveillance and beauty, to name a few.
The deployment of such technologies raises various ethical concerns, especially when robots equipped with machine learning systems may display a high degree of autonomy so that they exhibit (moral) agency, which further raises concerns regarding responsibility attributions for decision-making, but also for authorship and creativity. Relatedly, robotic autonomy and agency raises concerns over human interaction, e.g, the adequacy of displaying virtuous behaviours towards machines. Such concerns generate normative implications for the way robots should be designed, developed, regulated and used.
“Responsible Robotics: agency, virtues, and art” workshop addresses these concerns from mixed perspectives of ethics, art, philosophy of technology, and epistemology, revolving around questions such as: How much autonomy and agency can/should robots really display? How can virtue ethics inform the field of Responsible Robotics? What are the ethical concerns raised by the prospect of robot artists? What role can epistemology play in Responsible Robotics? How may technologies become probes to explore the great outdoors in an all-inclusive — yet responsible — fashion?
When: November 10, 15.00-19.30hrs EET (Bucharest time)
Where: Faculty of Philosophy + online, via Zoom platform
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Who: Keynote speakers: Sven Nyholm (Utrecht University), Marinos Koutsomichalis (Cyprus University of Technology)
Guest speakers: Mihály Héder (Technical University of Budapest), Cornel Moraru (Bucharest National University of Arts)
CoMoRe team: Cristina Voinea, Radu Uszkai, Constantin Vică, Mihaela Constantinescu
Responsible Robotics: agency, virtues, and art
November 10, 2022 (hybrid event)
15:00-15:10 Welcome note
Session I, on-site
15.10 – 15.40 CoMoRe Team: Mihaela Constantinescu, Cristina Voinea, Radu uszkai, Constantin Vică – Virtue ethics and responsible robotics. On human vs. artificial moral agency
15.40 – 16.00 Break
Session II, on-site / online
16.00 – 16.50 – Keynote: Marinos Koutsomichalis (Cyprus University of Technology) – Do androids dream of electric humans? – Tales of computational aesthetics, machine mediation, and more-than-human agency.
17.00 – 17.30 Guest: Cornel Moraru (Bucharest National University of Arts) – Hallucinating art. What does Artificial Intelligence teach us about aesthetic experience
17.30-18.00 Break
Session III, on-site / online
18.00-18.50 Sven Nyholm (Utrecht University) – Is there a Vice/Virtue Asymmetry in the Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction?
18.50 – 19.20 Mihály Héder (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) – Epistemology helps more than Ethics at responsible AI design
19.20-19.30, Closing remarks
More details on the event and the workshop series here