PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE FOR

AISB-00 Symposium on
AI, Ethics and (Quasi-)Human Rights

WEDNESDAY 19th April: MORNING

09:30 STEVE TORRANCE (Middlesex University):
Towards an Ethics for Epersons.

10:00 JOANNA BRYSON (University of Edinburgh):
A Proposal for the Humanoid Agent-builders League (HAL).

10:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:00 JOHN PICKERING (Warwick University):
Agents and Ethics.

11:30 -- GENERAL DISCUSSION

WEDNESDAY 19th April: AFTERNOON

14:30 HENRY THOMPSON (University of Edinburgh):
Computational Systems, Responsibility and Moral Sensibility.

15:00 BLAY WHITBY & KANE OLIVER (University of Sussex):
How to Avoid a Robot Takeover:
Political and Ethical Choices in the Design and Introduction of Intelligent Artifacts.

15:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

16:30 -- CRITIQUE SESSION
In this session, NON-presenters are invited to offer a brief (up to 5 minute) critique of presented papers, preferably ones earlier in the day, but they could also be of the Thursday ones. If time permits, presenters may also offer critiques.

Critiques don't HAVE to be negative in tone!!

Non-presenters who wish to take up this opportunity should inform John Barnden by lunch time on this day if possible, and preferably earlier if critiquing a Thursday paper.

16:45 -- GENERAL DISCUSSION

17:30 END OF DAY

THURSDAY 20th April: MORNING

09:00 MANFRED KERBER (University of Birmingham):
Prisoners of Reason.

09:30 MARK LEE (University of Birmingham):
The Ethics of Deception: Why AI Must Study Selfish Behaviour.

10:00 WILLIAM EDMONDSON (University of Birmingham):
Some Socio-Political Implications of AI.

10:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

11:00 -- GENERAL DISCUSSION

11:45 END OF SYMPOSIUM

12:00 -- PLENARY TALK -- Aaron Sloman

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