18-19 Apr 2016
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Workshop Responsible Intelligent Systems in Perspective; where Computer Science, Philosophy and Legal Theory meet Workshop webpage: http://tiny.cc/dt8day Our tendency to delegate responsibilities to machines (self-driving cars, algorithmic trading, military drones, autonomous surveillance systems, etc.) leads to pressing questions that call for answers from an interdisciplinary perspective. Computer scientists can contribute by studying how to design responsible AI, but they first need to know exactly what is meant by that. Philosophers may be able to tell them what responsibility is, but may find it hard to operationalise their insights in such fundamental topics as action, freedom, ethics, norms, and reasons. And that is where legal theorists may be of help, as they are used to think about the relation between abstract notions like fairness, justice, duty, excuse, complicity, causality and their concrete reflections in the rules of law. On April 18-19 2016, we organise an interdisciplinary workshop where we bring together researchers from Philosophy, Computer Science and Legal Theory to exchange views on the subject of responsible intelligent systems. Programme: Monday 18 April 9:00 Coffee 9:30 Opening: Jan Broersen & group, The REINS-project 10:25 Short Coffee Break 10:40 Bruce Chapman (Toronto, Canada, Legal Theory and Philosophy), TBA Abstracts 11:35 Long Coffee Break 12:05 Thomas Müller (Konstanz, Germany, Philosophy), When does an artificial system act? 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Franz Dietrich (Paris, France, Economy and Philosophy), What matters and how it matters: a choice-theoretic representation of moral theories 14:55 Short Coffee Break 15:10 Thomas Ågotnes (Bergen, Norway, Information Science), From Distributed to Common Knowledge 16:05 Long Coffee Break 16:35 John Horty (Maryland, US, Philosophy and Computer Science), TBA 17:30 End 18:30 Workshop dinner Tuesday 19 April 9:00 Coffee 9:30 Marija Slavkovik (Bergen, Norway, Computer Science), TBA 10:25 Short Coffee Break 10:55 Michael Fischer (Liverpool, UK, Computer Science), TBA 11:50 Long Coffee Break 12:05 Giovanni Sartor (European University Institute Florence, Italy, Legal Theory and Computer Science), The Autonomy of Technological Systems and Responsibilities for their Use 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Henry Prakken (Groningen en Utrecht, Netherlands, Computer Science and Legal Theory), Responsible intelligent systems and AI & Law 14:55 Short Coffee Break 15:10 Ugo Pagallo (Turin, Italy, Legal Theory and Computer Science), TBA 16:05 Long Coffee Break 16:35 Marek Sergot (Imperial College London, UK, Computer Science), TBA 17:30 Closing Attendance is free and open to all academics. To enable us to estimate how much coffee and sandwiches we have to order, we would be happy if you let us know if you plan to come by sending an email to H.W.A.Duijf@uu.nl with the subject ?Attendance REINS workshop?. Please mention your name and affiliation so that we can make a name tag for you to wear at the workshop. Venue: Boothstraat 7, Utrecht, Kerkzaal Website with the latest updates: http://tiny.cc/dt8day -Jan Broersen, Hein Duijf, Jesse Mulder -- ------- Jan Broersen ----------- Theoretical Philosophy Group - - www.uu.nl/hum/staff/JMBroersen ---- Utrecht University ------ ---- tel: +31 302532761 -------------- Janskerkhof 13 --------- ---- fax: +31 302534619 ------------- 3512 BL UTRECHT -------- -- -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam