Bruno Scarone writes about work presented at #AIES2025 which proposes a new way to measure data bias, along with a mitigation algorithm with mathematical guarantees.
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And I find myself strongly agreeing with almost everything Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem is saying in her #AIES2025 keynote about the future of AI ethics - despite continuing to worry that the vision for how to make AI systems more ethical does not sufficiently address future risks.
Tweet from @davidmanheim Nov 26, 2023; "I hate that #AIEthics is so closely tied to AGI skepticism. Yes, obviously AGI doesn't exist now, and ethics is really important to current ML. But if (when) we get radically transformative AI, they largely discredited themselves. And we don't stop needing AI ethicists then!"
I'm here at #AIES2025, and still worry quite a lot about this.
The deep skepticism about AI systems ever being generally capable, or even human-level in specific domains, doesn't seem to have changed over the past few years.
Chee Hae Chung @grailcenter.bsky.social present “AI & the Social Contract” #AIES2025 exploring how artificial intelligence reshapes the foundations of trust, governance, & public accountability in democratic societies.
🔗 www.aies-conference.com/2025/schedule/
#AI #AIGovernance #AIpolicy #TechPolicy
Excellent talk by @adiod.bsky.social finishing up a nice paper session on knowledge production and datasets at #aies2025
Should LLMs be WEIRD? When Cultural Fit Conflicts with Women’s Rights #AIES2025 medium.com/p/eb7e3a76c4c0
The Model Card Mirage: The AI Model Risk Catalog paints an uncomfortable portrait #AIES2025
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Presented out paper on "AI Policy For Whom? Reclaiming Governance from Capitalist Capture" this morning at #aies2025, in a kind of new semi-panel format which was honestly really useful I feel. Many thanks to my coauthors and co-panelists. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Next stop for conference hopping: #AIES2025 in Madrid!
I'll be giving an oral presentation of our paper Why (Not) Use AI during paper session 1 tomorrow (10/20) at 11:45AM :)
See details in thread below 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2502.07287
Picture of the auditorium stage. Information about the conference on the projected screen.
Stats about the conference over the years.
It sounds cliché, but I am honestly very excited to be here for the first time! #aies2025 Looking forward to learning from this single track conference, and of course, presenting our RAI umbrella review!
Low-resolution photo of David Manheim in front of AIES2025 banner
Excited to be here today at #AAAI #AIES2025. Looking forward to meeting more people and discussing governance and societal impacts of AI.
New conceptual paper (w/Dana Calacci and Cindy Lin) at #ACM #AAAI #AIES2025 on why there’s no accountability for social claims in so-called “general-purpose” Machine Learning research. I will present the paper on the 21st on a gargantuan poster;)
Paper: lnkd.in/ePn8USDx
My website: koutianqi.info
First page of paper "Embodied AI at the Margins: Postcolonial Ethics for Intelligent Robotic Systems". Abstract: As AI-powered robots increasingly permeate global societies, critical questions emerge about their ethical governance in diverse cultural contexts. This paper interrogates the adequacy of dominant roboethics frameworks when applied to Global South environments, where unique sociotechnical landscapes demand a reevaluation of Western-centric ethical assumptions. Through thematic analysis of seven major ethical standards for AI and robotics, we uncover systemic limitations that present challenges in non-Western contexts such as assumptions about standardized testing infrastructures, individualistic notions of autonomy, and universalized ethical principles. The uncritical adoption of these frameworks risks reproducing colonial power dynamics in which technological authority flows from centers of AI production rather than from the communities most affected by deployment. Instead of replacing existing frameworks entirely, we propose augmenting them through four complementary ethical dimensions developed through a postcolonial lens: epistemic non-imposition, onto-contextual consistency, agentic boundaries, and embodied spatial justice. These principles provide conceptual scaffolding for technological governance that respects indigenous knowledge systems, preserves cultural coherence, accounts for communal decision structures, and enhances substantive capabilities for Global South communities. The paper demonstrates practical implementation pathways for these principles across technological life cycles, offering actionable guidance for dataset curation, task design, and deployment protocols that mitigate power asymmetries in cross-cultural robotics implementation. This approach moves beyond surface-level adaptation to reconceptualize how robotic systems may ethically function within the complex social ecologies of the Global South while fostering genuine...
We'll be at #AIES2025 presenting Atmadeep's work on Postcolonial Ethics for Robots www.martimbrandao.com/papers/Ghosh... We:
- analyse 7 major roboethics frameworks, identifying gaps for the Global South
- propose principles to make AI robots culturally responsive and genuinely empowering
Our Senior Managing Editor, Lucy, will be attending #AIES2025 next week! If you are attending and fancy writing about your work, covering a talk, or meeting up to chat about any sci-comm ideas you have, then send us a DM
Find out what’s on the agenda at #AIES2025 next week. We’re looking forward to attending in person. Hope to see some of you there!
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Accountability Capture: AI Record‑Keeping Shapes Transparency
A survey of 100 AI practitioners reveals 'accountability capture' – logging reshapes oversight and creates privacy concerns. The concept will be presented at AIES 2025. Read more: getnews.me/accountability-capture-a... #accountabilitycapture #aies2025
📣 Accepted to #AIES2025: What do the audio datasets powering generative audio models actually contain? (led by @willie-agnew.bsky.social)
Answer: Lots of old audio content that is mostly English, often biased, and of dubious copyright / permissioning status.
Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/65/s...
1/ 🚨 Our paper (w/ @dana.witchy.business & Cindy Lin) is accepted to AAAI/ACM #AIES2025! 📷 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08739
⚠️ ML papers make broad/implicit social claims - but these often don’t match reality. We call this mismatch the claim-reality gap.
Our paper was accepted to AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society #AIES2025.
We present a taxonomy of questions to promote cognitive engagement in machine-assisted decision-making and reduce overreliance on decision-support systems.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12830