We invite you to submit your paper for the IEEE Smart World Congress Forum on Ethics and Human Rights in Smart Information Systems, co-organized by three EU projects engaged in ethics and human rights of AI: SIENNA, SHERPA and PANELFIT as well as the UK Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT (ORBIT).
Smart Information Systems (SIS), the application of artificial intelligence, in particular, machine learning via deep neural networks based on big data analytics, hold large promises and raise significant concerns. They form the backbone of visions of a smart world, powering smart technologies, driving smart cities and transforming our lives.
At the same time, these technologies raise a number of concerns with regards to their ethical consequences and their implications for human rights. There are numerous initiatives that aim to find ways to identify and address these. These are driven by industry, research or policy. What is currently missing in this debate is an integration of empirical insights into these issues, their theoretically sound evaluation and the translation of such knowledge into practical outcomes.
Trilateral Research’s interdisciplinary team is made of data scientists, computer scientists, social scientists and ethical and legal experts who work across the technology-social disciplinary divide to assess the ethical, legal and social impacts of new technologies both analyzing a particular domain of innovation and the impacts that technological systems might have in the contexts of their deployment.
Read about our work in SHERPA and SIENNA.
Forum on Ethics and Human Rights in Smart Information Systems
This Forum forms part of the IEEE Smart World Congress (19-23/08/2019, Leicester, UK) and will bring together a multidisciplinary community of scholars to address many of the facets of research required to understand and engage with these developments.
The forum aims to contribute to the current high-level discussion of ethical and human rights issues of smart information systems. A key combining feature of contributions will be empirical insight, linked with high-quality conceptual analysis bridging the gap to practical outcomes, regulations and other interventions.
Call for Papers
Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:
- Case studies and examples of ethical and human rights issues of smart information systems
- Legal and human rights analysis of these technologies
- Analysis of particular issues raised by these technologies (e.g. bias, data protection, unemployment)
- Scenarios of future and likely/possible technologies and their implications
- Regulatory options
- Policy and other interventions
- Codes of conduct, codes of ethics
- Standardisation
Speakers
It is expected that up to two keynote speakers will be invited, ideally linked to EC policy in this field.
Key dates
- Submission deadline: 6th May 2019
- Notification of acceptance: 10 May 2019
- Camera-ready paper: 19th May
Submission
Submissions are limited to 6 pages for a special session paper in the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format.
Papers are to be submitted in PDF format.
Please submit your paper here.
For more information contact our team.
