Congratulations to our Prize winners: Best Paper: Marc Canellas, Anti-Discrimination Law’s Cybernetic Black Hole — $1000 Ian R. Kerr Robotnik Memorial Award for an Emerging Scholar: Annie Brett, Robots in the Ocean — $500 plus travel support for the next We Robot Best poster: Maria P. Angel, Privacy’s Algorithmic Turn: An Intellectual History — $500 […]
#WeRobot had a great Workshop day; now the heavy lifting begins. See the Program page for the next two days’ schedule and for links to all the papers, demos, and more. Our conference software allows a healthy back-channel discussion, and this was in full form yesterday–expect even more today.
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Looking behind the curtain: What robots can (and cannot) do and how that influences the types of policies that can (and cannot) be written Bill Smart and Cindy Grimm will lead this workshop session at 11:00am on Thursday, September 23rd at #werobot. Machine learning is <gasp> just a glorified spreadsheet. Robots do not (and will […]
Daniella DiPaola will lead two live Demo Q&A sessions on Skills from Students – Artifacts from a Robot Interaction Design Curriculum for Fifth Grade Students at #werobot. The first session will be held at 3:15pm on Friday, September 24th; the second session will be held at 11:00am on Saturday, September 25th. We suggest viewing the […]
Miles Brundage will lead two live Demo Q&A sessions on Societal Implications of Large Language Models at #werobot. The first session will be held at 11:00am on Friday, September 24th; the second session will be held at 2:30pm on Saturday, September 25th. We suggest viewing the recorded demo in advance of the Q&A. Large language models, which […]
Michelle Johnson is the moderator for the Field Robotics panel at 4:30pm on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot. The panel will feature the following papers: Somebody That I Used to Know: The Risks of Personalizing Robots for Dementia Care by Alyssa Kubota, Maryam Pourebadi, Sharon Banh, Soyon Kim, and Laurel D. Riek Diverse Patient Perspectives on the Role […]
Cynthia Khoo will discuss Anti-Discrimination Law’s Cybernetic Black Hole at 3:00pm on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot. Cynthia Khoo is a digital rights lawyer and founder of Tekhnos Law. She is also a full-time Associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center, a Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab (Munk School […]
Meg Mitchell will discuss Predicting Consumer Contracts at 1:30pm on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot. Meg Mitchell’s research primarily involves vision-language and grounded language generation, focusing on how to evolve artificial intelligence towards positive goals. This includes research on helping computers to communicate based on what they can process, as well as projects to create assistive […]
Madeleine Clare Elish will discuss Autonomous Vehicle Fleets as Public Infrastructure at 11:30am on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot. Madeleine Clare Elish previously led the AI on the Ground Initiative at Data & Society, where she and her team investigated the promises and risks of integrating AI technologies into society. Through human-centered and ethnographic research, AI […]