MU Ethicbots Team

Satinder Gill

Penny Duquenoy

Chris Huyck

Steve Torrance

Disciplinary backgrounds

• Psychology

• Communication

• Philosophy

• Cognitive Science

• AI

Coordination and social intelligence

• Symbiotic systems - how technology alters our interactions and our capacities for intersubjective co-construction. (e.g. impacts on human cognition and affect.)– Coordinated autonomy– Entrainment - our capacity to shift from response to

anticipation– Designing for human-centred performance– Ethical - a)may not be freely able to express myself as

I would be able to otherwise - interferes with natural performance, b) deskilling of human social intelligence

Design• Impact of ICT on ordinary people

– Scaleability and interoperability of mulit-device coordination e.g. mobile devices (phones, PDAs, laptops)

– Ethical issues - where does the awareness lie of location and flow of information? Security of information?

• Design: – Awareness and responsibilities of designers– Embedded values– Decisions, judgements, priorities– Multi-agent systems - decisional responsibilities (what

are going to do with this practically?)

Autonomy

• Agency• Coordinated autonomy and impacts of

symbiotic systems• Moral responsibility• Transhuman identity

Related Domains

• Neural nets:– Self-learning systems - and predictability

• Autism

• Music and science

• Medical informatics and ethics

Dissemination • IFIP WG9.2 Computers and Social Accountability• SIG Ethics/Disability• INSEIT: International Society for ethics and

information technology• British Computer Society Ethics Panel• AI &Society: Journal of Human-Centred Systems

(Springer)• ICES - Journal of Information and Communication

and Ethics in Society (Troubador)