If you missed any part of We Robot 2021, or you just want to enjoy it again, you’ll be pleased to know we’ve got recordings of the sessions available on line. If you want to read the paper before hearing the discussion (highly recommended!) see our program page for links to everything. Recording of Welcome […]
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.
Roel Dobbe and Thomas Gilbert will present their paper, Autonomous Vehicles Fleets as Public Infrastructure, on Saturday, September 25th at 11:30am at #werobot 2021. Madeleine Clare Elish will lead the discussion. The promise of ‘autonomous vehicles’ (AV) to redefine public mobility makes their development political — across a variety of stakeholders. This politics may not be obvious. In […]
Charlotte Tschider will present her paper, Prescribing Exploitation, on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot 2021. Michelle Johnson will moderate the 4:30pm – 5:30pm panel on Health Robotics. Patients increasingly rely on connected wearable medical devices that use artificial intelligence infrastructures and physical housing that directly interacts with the human body. Many folks who have traditionally relied […]
Kelly Bergstrand, Jess Findley, Christopher Robertson, Marv Slepian, Cayley Balser, and Andrew Woods will present their paper, Diverse Patient Perspectives on the Role of AI and Big Data in Healthcare, on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot 2021. Michelle Johnson will moderate the 4:30pm – 5:30pm panel on Health Robotics. Artificial intelligence and big data (AIBD) are being used to find […]
Alyssa Kubota, Maryam Pourebadi, Sharon Banh, Soyon Kim, and Laurel D. Riek will present their paper, Somebody That I Used to Know: The Risks of Personalizing Robots for Dementia Care, on Saturday, September 25th at #werobot 2021. Michelle Johnson will moderate the 4:30pm – 5:30pm panel on Health Robotics. People with dementia (PwD) often live at home with […]
Marc Canellas will present his paper, Anti-Discrimination Law’s Cybernetic Black Hole, on Saturday, September 25th at 3:00pm at #werobot 2021. Cynthia Khoo will lead the discussion. The incorporation of machines into American systems (e.g., crime, housing, family regulation, welfare) represents the peak of evolution, the perfect design, for our devotion to a colorblind society at the […]
Noam Kolt will present his paper, Predicting Consumer Contracts, on Saturday, September 25th at 1:30pm at #werobot 2021. Meg Mitchell will lead the discussion. This paper empirically examines whether a computational language model can read and understand consumer contracts. Language models are able to perform a wide range of complex tasks by predicting the next […]
Abeba Birhane, Jelle van Dijk, and Frank Pasquale will present their paper, Debunking Robot Rights: Metaphysically, Ethically and Legally, on Saturday, September 25th at 10:00am at #werobot 2021. Deb Raji will lead the discussion. In this work we challenge the argument for robot rights on metaphysical, ethical and legal grounds. Metaphysically, we argue that machines are not […]