Proceedings von „How Fair is Fair? Achieving Wellbeing AI“ erschienen

Am 17. November 2022 sind die Proceedings von „How Fair is Fair? Achieving Wellbeing AI“ (Organisatoren: Takashi Kido und Keiki Takadama) auf CEUR-WS erschienen. Das AAAI 2022 Spring Symposium fand vom 21. bis 23. März 2022 an der Stanford University statt. Im elektronischen Band finden sich sieben Full Papers mit 6 – 8 Seiten: „Should Social Robots in Retail Manipulate Customers?“ von Oliver Bendel und Liliana Margarida Dos Santos Alves (3. Platz der Best Presentation Awards), „The SPACE THEA Project“ von Martin Spathelf und Oliver Bendel (2. Platz der Best Presentation Awards), „Monitoring and Maintaining Student Online Classroom Participation Using Cobots, Edge Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Ethnographies“ von Ana Djuric, Meina Zhu, Weisong Shi, Thomas Palazzolo und Robert G. Reynolds, „AI Agents for Facilitating Social Interactions and Wellbeing“ von Hiro Taiyo Hamada und Ryota Kanai (1. Platz der Best Presentation Awards) , „Sense and Sensitivity: Knowledge Graphs as Training Data for Processing Cognitive Bias, Context and Information Not Uttered in Spoken Interaction“ von Christina Alexandris, „Fairness-aware Naive Bayes Classifier for Data with Multiple Sensitive Features“ von Stelios Boulitsakis-Logothetis und „A Thermal Environment that Promotes Efficient Napping“ von Miki Nakai, Tomoyoshi Ashikaga, Takahiro Ohga und Keiki Takadama. Zudem gibt es mehrere Short Papers und Extended Abstracts. Die Proceedings können über ceur-ws.org/Vol-3276/ abgerufen werden.

Abb.: In dieser Gegend fand das Symposium statt

How Fair is Fair?

The AAAI 2022 Spring Symposium „How Fair is Fair? Achieving Wellbeing AI“ will be held March 21-23 at Stanford University. The symposium website states: „What are the ultimate outcomes of artificial intelligence? AI has the incredible potential to improve the quality of human life, but it also presents unintended risks and harms to society. The goal of this symposium is (1) to combine perspectives from the humanities and social sciences with technical approaches to AI and (2) to explore new metrics of success for wellbeing AI, in contrast to ‚productive AI‘, which prioritizes economic incentives and values.“ (Website „How Fair is Fair“) After two years of pandemics, the AAAI Spring Symposia are once again being held in part locally. However, several organizers have opted to hold them online. „How fair is fair“ is a hybrid event. On site speakers include Takashi Kido, Oliver Bendel, Robert Reynolds, Stelios Boulitsakis-Logothetis, and Thomas Goolsby. The figure below shows a part of the program with the presentations of the mornings and early afternoons of March 21 and 22. More information via sites.google.com/view/hfif-aaai-2022/program.

Fig.: A part of the program

Paper on Manipulative Social Robots in Retail at AAAI 2022 Spring Symposia

The paper „Should Social Robots in Retail Manipulate Customers?“ by Oliver Bendel and Liliana Margarida Dos Santos Alves was accepted at the AAAI 2022 Spring Symposia (Stanford University). The two authors will present it at the end of March 2022 at the symposium „How Fair is Fair? Achieving Wellbeing AI“. From the abstract: „Against the backdrop of structural changes in the retail trade, social robots have found their way into retail stores and shopping malls in order to attract, welcome, and greet customers; to inform them, advise them, and persuade them to make a purchase. Salespeople often have a broad knowledge of their product and rely on offering competent and honest advice, whether it be on shoes, clothing, or kitchen appliances. However, some frequently use sales tricks to secure purchases. The question arises of how consulting and sales robots should ‚behave‘. Should they behave like human advisors and salespeople, i.e., occasionally manipulate customers? Or should they be more honest and reliable than us? This article tries to answer these questions. After explaining the basics, it evaluates a study in this context and gives recommendations for companies that want to use consulting and sales robots. Ultimately, fair, honest, and trustworthy robots in retail are a win-win situation for all concerned.“ More information about the AAAI 2022 Spring Symposia is available here.

Fig.: Liliana Alves and Oliver Bendel