Call for Submissions Essay Challenge: On creating AI in Virtual Worlds Lab42 https://lab42.global/essay-virtualworlds/ Submission deadline: March 31, 2023 Dear all, From the early days of computing, scientists and dreamers alike were captivated by the idea of creating machines that could think and reason like humans. As the decades passed, a sense of tension grew as pioneers in the field made strides in developing increasingly sophisticated AI systems, while skeptics warned of the dangers of creating machines that might outstrip human intelligence. The tension reached a fever pitch in the 1990s, with the rise of expert systems and neural networks, and…

Call for Participation Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The End or a New Beginning for Humanism A (free) transdisciplinary conference May 13, 2023 & May 14, 2023 John Cabot University, Guarini Campus, Rome, Italy https://calendar.johncabot.edu/event/technology-art-and-the-posthuman-the-end-or-a-new-beginning-for-humanism-1/ Submission deadline: March 6, 2023 A transdisciplinary conference seeks to foster transdisciplinary and intercultural conversations among artists, technologists, humanists, and natural scientists presenting their work in areas such as literature, philosophy, ethics, psychology, music, fine arts, bodywork, and intercultural knowledge. The conference accepts papers and art works that encourage scholars, artists, intellectuals, scientists, and technologists to reflect on the emerging cultural and humanist paradigm that…

Call for Papers Special Track: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on XAI xAI 2023: First World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence July 26-28, 2023 Lisbon, Portugal https://xaiworldconference.com/special-track-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-xai/ Submission deadline: April 20, 2023 As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent, concerns about biased decision-making, mistrust, safety, and gaps in responsibility as well as accountability become increasingly pressing. While eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is seen as a crucial and central means of mitigating these risks, a more comprehensive understanding of XAI is still required that considers not only technical aspects but also societal, psychological, legal, and ethical requirements of AI explanations. The special track Interdisciplinary…

Call For Papers The 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023) December 4-7, 2023 Gothenburg, Sweden https://hai-conference.net/hai2023/ Submission deadlines: Full paper submissions: May 26, 2023 Poster submissions: TBA, August 2023 Workshop submissions: TBA, August 2023 The Eleventh International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023) aims to be the premier interdisciplinary venue for discussing and disseminating state-of-the-art research and results that have implications across conventional interaction boundaries including robots, software agents and digitally-mediated human-human communication. HAI will gather researchers from fields spanning engineering, computer science, psychology and sociology, and will cover diverse topics, including: human-robot interaction, affective computing, computer-supported collaborative…

Call for Papers Bodies, Images, Networks. Digital space as public space Lessico di Etica Pubblica XIV, n. 1, 2023 http://www.eticapubblica.it/call-for-paper/ Edited by Flora Geerts (University of Turin), Andrea Osti (University of Genova) & Francesco Pisano (University of Naples “Federico II”) Submission deadline: April 15, 2023 Issue 1/2023 of Lessico di Etica Pubblica aims to investigate the transformations of public space and the subjects that inhabit it in light of its intertwining with the so-called “digital space”. Even if we limit ourselves to a narrow notion of public space as a collective place of encounter, interaction, sharing, and mutual negotiation of…