Call for Papers Designed to Deceive? The Philosophy of Deepfakes A Topical Collection in Synthese An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science Guest Editor: Dan Cavedon-Taylor, The Open University Submission deadline: July 30th 2022 TOPICAL COLLECTION DESCRIPTION: Deepfakes are fabricated video and/or audio recordings created by machine-learning methods. They are highly convincing in their appearance and are widely anticipated to be used for malign, deceptive purposes. Indeed, malicious use of the technology is already a reality: In April 2020, members of Extinction Rebellion created a deepfake of the Belgian Prime Minister, Sophie Wilmès, that depicted the PM…

[NOTE: The ETGG website also includes a discussion board, with (at this writing) one post titled “Anthropomorphising AI.” –Matthew] Call for Participation The Ethics and Technology Graduate Group (ETGG) Work In Progress (WIP) 2021 Sessions Online via Zoom https://techethicsgroup.wixsite.com/tethics/events Session 1: “Vulnerability, Trust and Human-Robot Interaction” Wednesday 9th of June, 2021 – 17:00 – 18:30 CET Presenter: Zachary Daus, University of Vienna ABSTRACT: Recent attempts to engineer trustworthy robotic systems often conceive of trust in terms of predictability. Accordingly, to trust a robotic system (or a human) is to be able to predict what the robotic system (or human) will…

Call for Papers FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference – Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction Supported by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg November 15-17, 2021 Online Zoom-Meeting https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/veranstaltungen/nachwuchskonferenzen/SpoHuMa21 Easychair: https://easychair.org/cfp/SpoHuMa21 Paper submission deadline: September 3, 2021 This three-day international conference is targeted at early career researchers (Master’s students, PhD students, Post-Docs) in the area of spoken human-machine interaction who take a human-centered approach to the topic. While we would like to emphasize linguistic aspects, we also invite researchers from related fields such as psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and computer science to contribute their perspectives.…

Call for Papers The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Mixed reality Implications on Cultural Heritage Experience – MrICHE 2021 In conjunction with the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2021 – ismar21.org) Bari, Italy October 4, 2021 https://fcrlab.unime.it/calls/mriche2021 Papers submission deadline: June 23, 2021 MISSION: The main aim of the workshop is discussing, ideating, and prototyping use-cases for creating immersive Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality experiences for the purpose of making both new functions and reuse of the existing cultural heritage, as well as promoting the born of a new cultural heritage based on digital technology. Moreover, the…

Call for Papers Minds & Machines special issue on The sociotechnical systems approach for Artificial Intelligence Guest Editors: Olya Kudina, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology Ibo van de Poel, Professor, Delft University of Technology Deadline for paper submissions: September 1, 2021 DESCRIPTION A sociotechnical systems approach is a generally recognized lens to look at complex technologies by underscoring the intrinsic entanglement of their technical, social and institutional dimensions that together produce specific use patterns and ethical concerns (e.g. Franssen 2015; Kroes et al. 2006). What distinguishes Artificial Intelligence (AI) from traditional sociotechnical systems is the presence of artificial agents,…

CALL FOR PAPERS The 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2021) 10-13 November 2021 Singapore and Online Conference format: Hybrid with joint programme with the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021; https://hai-conference.net/hai2021/) www.colips.org/conferences/icsr2021 Submission deadline: 13th June 2021 GENERAL INFORMATION The 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2021) brings together researchers and practitioners working on the interaction between humans and intelligent robots and on the integration of robots into the fabric of our society. ICSR 2021 will take place in Singapore as a hybrid conference on 10-13 November 2021. Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings…