The purpose of this workshop is to envision our technological future from a humanities & social sciences perspective. The workshop will feature interdisciplinary panel discussions with roboticists, computer scientists, HRI experts, social psychologists, cognitive scientists, and ethicists. Keynote speakers will critically address key issues associated with service robots and intelligent systems in society.

The sessions dedicated to submitted abstracts will cover a broad range of topics such as:

The last human job: technological unemployment and basic income
Labor re-qualification and intellectual work in the age of Industry 4.0: the role of the Digital Humanities
Beyond the Big Brother: big data, machine learning, privacy, intrusive algorithms, and cyber security
Programming, training, experiencing: potential and limitations of deep learning systems
Biased algorithms and public policy: civil rights and social justice in the age of AI
Robo-republic: collective participation vs automated decisional processes
Digitally augmented democracy: E-government and citizens-institutions communication

If you would like to attend both days, please select one ticket for each day.

Please note that Day 1 will be held at the Parramatta South campus and Day 2 will be held at the Parramatta City campus.

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Interdisciplinary Workshop on Robots & AI in Society