The AI Robotics Ethics Society

• Trustworthy AI systems

  • Issues of AI accountability and responsibility.

  • Robustness and reliability for producing consistent outputs.

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• AI and law, regulation and governance

  • Laws surrounding privacy and data protection.

  • Government regulations for the scope and application of AI systems in private industry.

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• Fairness, equity and justice

  • AI that benefits all people, especially historically marginalized populations, "AI for Good."

  • Issues of algorithmic bias and, models that account for social phenomena.

  • Debiasing tools and solutions to mitigate bias. 

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• Transparency, Interpretability, and Explainability of AI models

  • Development of AI models whose decisions making processes are transparent, human-understandable and explainable.

  • Explainable AI, "XAI" systems.

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• AI, Machine, and Human Interaction

  • AI impacts on daily life in human societies.​

  • Development of human-centered AI, "human-in-loop" designs.

  • Guidelines for human-AI interactions.

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• Adversarial learning and security

  • The ability of models to handle deceptive input data and adversarial agents.

  • Protection of model information and data privacy against cyber threats.

  • Applications of AI for handling large scale medical patient data, and corresponding concerns for patient privacy. 

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• Ethical frameworks for AI

  • Application of moral theory to problems in AI ethics and decision making.

  • Philosophical backgrounds and justification for common principles in AI ethics.​

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• AI applications in Health

  • ​Applications of AI for handling large scale medical patient data, and corresponding concerns for patient privacy.

  • Potential impacts of AI on physician-patient interactions.

  • Potential conflicts of interest between AI companies and ethical care.

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• Future of Work

  • Impacts of the growing adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace.​

  • Potential changes of the workplace, the workforce, and the nature of work itself due to AI.

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• Artificial Moral Agents

  • Exploration of virtual (software) or physical agents (robot) capable of engaging in moral behavior or at least of avoiding immoral behavior.