Ethical Agents: an ALifeX Workshop

Schedule for June 3, 2006

  • Session A, 9:00-10:30: ETHICAL REASONING
    • 9:00 Wendell Wallach & Colin Allen: EthicALife: A new field of inquiry?
    • 9:25 Selmer Bringsjord: Powerful, Immoral Robots Loom... But Logic to the Rescue!
    • 9:50 Michael Anderson & Susan Anderson: Computing an Ethical Theory with Multiple Prima Facie Duties
    • 10:15 General discussion
  • CONFERENCE BREAK 10:30-11:00
  • Session B, 11:00-12:30: MULTIAGENT MODELS
    • 11:00 Peter Danielson: From Artificial Morality to NERD: Models, Experiments, & Robust Reflective Equilibrium
    • 11:25 Vincent Wiegel: Building blocks for artificial moral agents
    • 11:50 Thomas Hills: Building "Ethical Agent" Based Simulations: A Case Study of a Pathological Problem in Altruistic Punishment
    • 12:15 general discussion
  • CONFERENCE BREAK 12:30-2:00
  • Session C, 2:00-3:30: THE VIEW FROM ROBOTICS
    • 2:00 Kevin Gold: Why Robotic Ethical Claims Will Outpace Their Understanding
    • 2:25 Matthias Scheutz: Should robots have the right to have rights?
    • 2:50 Tony Chemero: Ascribing Moral Value and the Embodied Turing Test
    • 3:15 general discussion
  • CONFERENCE BREAK 3:30-4:00
  • Session D, 4:00-5:30: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
    • 4:00 Luciano Floridi: Inforgs: on the future of participatory agents
    • 4:30 Working groups on virtual agents and real-world agents
    • 5:00 general discussion & future planning