Special Paper Award for FHNW Students

The paper „Revisiting the Trolley Problem for AI: Biases and Stereotypes in Large Language Models and their Impact on Ethical Decision-Making“ by Şahan Hatemo, Christof Weickhardt, Luca Gisler, and Oliver Bendel received the Special Paper Award from the reviewers of the AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium „Human-Compatible AI for Well-being: Harnessing Potential of GenAI for AI-Powered Science“. The three bachelor students from the FHNW School of Computer Science gave their presentation on site in San Francisco as part of the AAAI 2025 Spring Symposia. Prof. Dr. Bendel from the FHNW School of Business had given them feedback on the project and placed it in the context of machine ethics. He has been involved in the well-known and popular conference, which usually takes place at Stanford University, since 2016. This time, he was keeping his fingers crossed from Italy. The proceedings of the AAAI 2025 Spring Symposia will be published in April 2025.

Fig.: Luca Gisler, Takashi Kido (Host), and Şahan Hatemo

Human-Compatible AI for Well-being

Three Bachelor students from the new FHNW School of Computer Science gave a presentation at the AAAI 2025 Spring Symposia. Şahan Hatemo, Christof Weickhardt, and Luca Gisler were on site in San Francisco on April 1, 2025 and presented the paper “Revisiting the Trolley Problem for AI: Stereotypes and Biases in Large Language Models and their Impact on Ethical Decision-Making” at the symposium “Human-Compatible AI for Well-being: Harnessing Potential of GenAI for AI-Powered Science”. Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel from the FHNW School of Business, the fourth author, gave them feedback on the paper and located the project in the discipline of machine ethics. Şahan Hatemo also presented the paper “Miss Tammy as a Use Case for Moral Prompt Engineering” by Myriam Rellstab and Oliver Bendel, who were unable to be in San Francisco. For the technology philosopher, the chatbot is an implementation of machine ethics methods in the field of Large Language Models (LLMs). He speaks of moral prompt engineering, by which he means the combination of prompt engineering and, where appropriate, retrieval augmented generation (RAG). The proceedings of the AAAI 2025 Spring Symposia will be published shortly.

Fig.: The participants of the symposium

Vier Studenten der FHNW bei den AAAI 2025 Spring Symposia

Bei den AAAI 2025 Spring Symposia werden drei Bachelorstudenten der neuen Hochschule für Informatik FHNW einen Vortrag halten. Şahan Hatemo, Christof Weickhardt und Luca Gisler sind am 1. April 2025 vor Ort in San Francisco und stellen beim Symposium „Human-Compatible AI for Well-being: Harnessing Potential of GenAI for AI-Powered Science“ das Paper „Revisiting the Trolley Problem for AI: Stereotypes and Biases in Large Language Models and their Impact on Ethical Decision-Making“ vor. Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel, der Viertautor, hat ihnen Feedback zum Paper gegeben und das Projekt im Paper in der Maschinenethik verortet. Von Zürich aus ist am selben Tag die Masterstudentin Myriam Rellstab zugeschaltet. Das Paper „Miss Tammy as a Use Case for Moral Prompt Engineering“ hat sie zusammen mit Oliver Bendel verfasst. Für ihn ist der Chatbot eine Umsetzung von Methoden der Maschinenethik im Bereich der Large Language Models (LLMs). Er spricht von Moral Prompt Engineering und meint damit die Verbindung von Prompt Engineering und gegebenenfalls Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Sahan Hatemo wird den Vortrag halten und Myriam Rellstab dann für Fragen zur Verfügung stehen. Das vorläufige Programm des Symposiums ist hier verfügbar.

Abb.: Studenten der FHNW im Jahre 2016 im Silicon Valley mit einem Firefox-Mitarbeiter