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<span style="font-size: 18pt;">CALL FOR ABSTRACTS</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">Binary Morality:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">New Perspectives on AI Ethics</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Participation:
<b>Online and in-person. </b></span></p>
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<b>free</b>. </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Date:
<b>10th of May 2024</b></span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Venue: University of Hradec Králové, Philosophical Faculty Conference room SM4</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Abstract submission deadline:
<b>10th of April 2024</b></span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Notification of acceptance:<b> 22nd of April 2024</b></span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Send your abstracts (and any questions) to: </span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><u><a href="mailto:binarymorality.workshop@gmail.com" id="OWA5d426f08-3fac-b178-8ea9-390391065deb" class="x_OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">binarymorality.workshop@gmail.com</a></u></b></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Steven S. Gouveia Ph.D. (University of Porto)</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Tomáš Hřibek Ph.D. (Institute of Philosophy AS CR)</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Ondřej Krása Ph.D. (University of Pardubice)</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">With the increasing ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and artificial agents, like large language models,
</span>the topic of AI safety is entering the public consciousness. As the capabilities of these systems improve, it is becoming clear that AI systems will have an impact on every aspect of our lives. Therefore, we should carefully consider how we will integrate
these systems into our everyday dealings. Several theorists within the field of AI safety argue that what we face is an
<i>alignment problem</i>, where we may develop artificial agents with motivations that are misaligned with our own. Among the concerns related to issues of AI safety, there is the possibility of existential risk presented by self-improving artificial agents.
As AI may be the last human invention, we should think carefully about all the scientific, political, ethical, legal, and philosophical aspects that surround it. This workshop aims to explore whether we can formulate ethical standards that these systems should
follow and how exactly we should integrate them into society. For that purpose, we seek to explore new perspectives on the issues that AI and related technologies generate. This workshop is primarily aimed at postgraduate students, but postdocs and more senior
academics are also welcome.</p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: 14.95px; margin: 0px 0px 0cm;">Topics and issues of interest include (but are not limited to): <br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><i>Artificial Agency and Moral Status of Robots/AI<br>
Programming Machine Ethics<br>
Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Unemployment<br>
Political, legal and ethical consequences and consideration of non-human artificial agents<br>
Politics of AI, AI Governance<br>
Bias and Fairness in AI<br>
Transparency and Explainability of AI systems<br>
The Ethics of Big Data: The Right to be Forgotten and Data Privacy.<br>
Theoretical Foundations of Computer Ethics<br>
Embodied, Enactive, Extended and Embedded approaches to AI ethics<br>
Artificial General Intelligence and Friendly AI<br>
Existential Risk and Superintelligent AI<br>
Enhancement technologies, Transhumanism and AI</i></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><b>How to submit your abstract:</b><br>
Please send your abstract in a file (preferably .docx word format) prepared for anonymous review. Your original abstract should be 150 to 250 words (bibliography excluded), written in English. Send a separate file containing your name, paper title, institutional
affiliation, and position alongside your abstract. We accept submissions for physical and online talks.</div>
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