AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2020)
About
AIES 2020 was the third edition of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, held February 7-8, 2020 at the New York Hilton Midtown, co-located with the AAAI-20 conference. The conference series was launched in 2018 as a joint initiative of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), specifically ACM's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI). The conference was designed to address ethical concerns and challenges raised by AI's growing pervasiveness in society, including issues of privacy, safety and security, surveillance, inequality, data handling and bias, personal agency, power relations, effective modes of regulation, accountability, sanctions, and workforce displacement. The interdisciplinary community included lawyers, practitioners, and academics from computer science, philosophy, public policy, economics, human-computer interaction, psychology, sociology, and law. For AIES 2020, the call for papers attracted 211 submissions, of which 34 were accepted for oral presentation and 37 for poster presentation. The proceedings were edited by Annette N. Markham, Julia Powles, Toby Walsh, and Anne L. Washington, and published through the ACM Digital Library (ISBN 978-1-4503-7110-0). The conference featured five invited talks from prominent scholars and practitioners: Peter Dabrock (Chair of the German Ethics Council) spoke on data subject sovereignty and governance; Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change) presented on the AI-development connection from a Global South perspective; Charlton McIlwain (NYU) addressed planning for a just AI future; Gina Neff discussed expanding the AI ethics toolkit; and Frank Pasquale (University of Maryland) examined formalizing evaluative criteria in machine decision-making. AIES 2020 was a single conference event within the ongoing AIES conference series, which has continued annually. It was not a standalone organization but rather a recurring academic conference jointly sponsored by AAAI and ACM.
Theory of Change
The AIES conference series operates on the premise that bringing together an interdisciplinary community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to rigorously examine the ethical and societal implications of AI can shape how AI technologies are developed, deployed, and regulated. By providing a peer-reviewed venue for research on AI safety, bias, accountability, privacy, and governance, and by facilitating dialogue between computer scientists and experts in philosophy, law, economics, and social sciences, the conference aims to shift the conversation on AI ethics from abstract principles to concrete, actionable measures that scientists, businesses, and policymakers can implement.
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