{"id":42,"date":"2016-11-07T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2016-11-07T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:54:38","slug":"policy-matters-at-aaai-fss-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/policy-matters-at-aaai-fss-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Matters at AAAI FSS-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AAAI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/Symposia\/Fall\/fss16symposia.php#fs01\">Fall Symposium Series<\/a> on November 17-19, 2016, comprises six symposia, all of which are relevant to AI public policy:<br \/>\nAccelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI<br \/>\nArtificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction<br \/>\nCognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications<br \/>\nCross-Disciplinary Challenges for Autonomous Systems<br \/>\nPrivacy and Language Technologies<br \/>\nShared Autonomy in Research and Practice.<\/p>\n<p>Themes include human-machine relationships and the need for stakeholders to be in dialogue about legal impacts and potential legislative actions. Public policy must address the encouragement or discouragement of short-term technology development goals, the longer-term implications of autonomous systems, and the increasing influence of AI on human activities.<\/p>\n<p>Should the creators of autonomous systems be responsible for the actions of those systems?<br \/>\nCould autonomous systems gain personhood and legal responsibility?<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your comments and perspectives!<\/p>\n<p>If you are able to participate in FSS-16, we look forward to you giving your ideas and questions at the symposia. If you cannot attend, please let us know questions you would like asked by adding your comments and discussions in this blog posting. We also welcome your ideas sent to <a href=\"mailto:lrm@gwu.edu\">lrm@gwu.edu<\/a> so they can be shared at FSS-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AAAI Fall Symposium Series on November 17-19, 2016, comprises six symposia, all of which are relevant to AI public policy: Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications Cross-Disciplinary Challenges for Autonomous Systems Privacy and Language Technologies Shared Autonomy in Research and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/policy-matters-at-aaai-fss-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Policy Matters at AAAI FSS-16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}