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MU Ethicbots Team
Satinder Gill
Penny Duquenoy
Chris Huyck
Steve Torrance
Disciplinary backgrounds
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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:
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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)