MU Ethicbots Team Satinder Gill Penny Duquenoy Chris Huyck Steve Torrance.
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MU Ethicbots Team
Satinder Gill
Penny Duquenoy
Chris Huyck
Steve Torrance
Disciplinary backgrounds
• Psychology
• Communication
• Philosophy
• Cognitive Science
• AI
Coordination and social intelligence
• Symbiotic systems - how technology alters our interactions and our capacities for intersubjective co-construction. (e.g. impacts on human cognition and affect.)– Coordinated autonomy– Entrainment - our capacity to shift from response to
anticipation– Designing for human-centred performance– Ethical - a)may not be freely able to express myself as
I would be able to otherwise - interferes with natural performance, b) deskilling of human social intelligence
Design• Impact of ICT on ordinary people
– Scaleability and interoperability of mulit-device coordination e.g. mobile devices (phones, PDAs, laptops)
– Ethical issues - where does the awareness lie of location and flow of information? Security of information?
• Design: – Awareness and responsibilities of designers– Embedded values– Decisions, judgements, priorities– Multi-agent systems - decisional responsibilities (what
are going to do with this practically?)
Autonomy
• Agency• Coordinated autonomy and impacts of
symbiotic systems• Moral responsibility• Transhuman identity
Related Domains
• Neural nets:– Self-learning systems - and predictability
• Autism
• Music and science
• Medical informatics and ethics
Dissemination • IFIP WG9.2 Computers and Social Accountability• SIG Ethics/Disability• INSEIT: International Society for ethics and
information technology• British Computer Society Ethics Panel• AI &Society: Journal of Human-Centred Systems
(Springer)• ICES - Journal of Information and Communication
and Ethics in Society (Troubador)