Value Engineering in AI (VALE 2023)
A workshop affiliated with the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023)
30 September - 05 October 2023, Kraków, Poland
Overview
With AI’s impact on our everyday lives becoming more and more tangible, the need for ethical and trustworthy AI has gained strong recognition by governments, industry, the general public, as well as academics, as evidenced by the numerous ethical guidelines and requirements. The stated goal of the EU strategy is to develop AI in such a way that applications using AI are reliable, robust, explainable, ethically guided and hence trustworthy. Ensuring AI is trustworthy and reliable requires ensuring that it fulfils human needs and respects human values. To achieve this, there is a need to develop software systems that reason about human values and norms, implement these values through norms, and ensure the alignment of behaviour with those values and norms. We argue that just as values guide our own morality, values can guide the morality of software agents and systems, bringing machine morality closer to reality. The result would be value-aware systems that take value-aligned decisions, interpret human behaviour in terms of values and enrich human reasoning by enhancing the human's value-awareness.
Today there is a growing wealth of work in the field of AI on accounting for human values and working towards value-aligned behaviour, such as how AI learns human values, how individual values can be aggregated to the level of groups, how arguments that explicitly reference values can be made, how decision making can be value-driven, and how norms are selected to maximise value-alignment. VALE 2023 intends to bring in research on value engineering together and foster in-depth discussions on the topic.
Topic Areas:
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Value and norm representation
Value and norm learning
Value and norm agreement
Value and norm conflict resolution
Value-driven argumentation and negotiation
Value-driven decision making
Value-driven system design
Value-alignment
Value-driven explainability
Legal questions in value and norm enforcement
Important dates
Paper submission deadline (extended): 30 June 2023 25 July 2023
Notification of acceptance: 01 September 2023
Camera-ready submission deadline: 10 September 2023
VALE workshop: 30 September 2023
This workshop is supported by the following projects:
The EU funded VALAWAI project, with Grant no. 101070930
The Spanish funded VAE project, with Grant no. TED2021-131295B-C31 /C32 / C33
The EU funded MUHAI project, with Grant no. 951846
The EU CHIST-ERA funded iTrust project