Workshop on Agent-Based Simulations of Disruptive Autonomous Devices

STARTS AT 10:00
LAB42 room L3.33

The rapid development of AI is leading to increasingly autonomous devices, like cars, aircraft, and soon, teaming robots and drones. This trend raises significant legal and ethical questions, especially when these AI decisions pose risks, such as with military technology. As AI tools gain more autonomy, concerns about their behavior and human control grow. These devices also interact within social systems, pursuing goals, cooperating, and following community rules, creating a complex environment with evolving dynamics.

During the workshop we will discuss how to define and implement mechanisms for dealing with norms and trust relations into agents of multi-agent systems, in order to provide input for conducting simulations enabling the research of the dynamics of relations between autonomous agents.

Space for exchange

The aim of the workshop is to provide space for exchange of methods, models, and ideas concerning research on agent-based simulations of disruptive autonomous devices, in order to deal with legal and social phenomena like adherence to rules and principles, trust, and cooperation between agents.

Speakers and Presentations

  • Trustworthy AI for High Risk systems – Leon Kester
  • Mind the Gaps: Logical English, Prolog, and Multi-Agent Systems for Autonomous vehicles – Galileo Sartor, Adam Wyner
  • A Computational Model of Trustworthiness: Trust-Based Interactions
  • Between Agents in Multi-Agent Systems – Tomasz Zurek, Tom van Engers, Basten Leefting, Britta Abbink Spaink
  • Are Human Judgement and Control of Autonomous Weapons Systems* Requirements of International Humanitarian Law? – Jeroen van den Boogaard

Programme

  • 9:30-10:00 Welcome coffee
  • 10:00 – 10:15 Opening
  • 10:15-12:15 Session I
  • 10:15 – 10:45 Trustworthy AI for High Risk systems – Leon Kester
  • 10:45 – 11:15 Mind the Gaps: Logical English, Prolog, and Multi-Agent Systems for Autonomous vehicles – Galileo Sartor, Adam Wyner 
  • 11:15 – 11:45 A Computational Model of Trustworthiness: Trust-Based Interactions Between Agents in Multi-Agent Systems – Tomasz Zurek, Tom van Engers, Basten Leefting, Britta Abbink Spaink
  • 11:45 – 12:15 Are Human Judgement and Control of Autonomous Weapons Systems Requirements of International Humanitarian Law? – Jeroen van den Boogaard
  • 12:15 – 13:00 Lunch Break 
  • 13:00 – 14:30 Session II 
  • Panel Discussion: Leon Kester, Adam Wyner, Jeroen van den Boogaard, Tomasz Zurek. Moderator: Tom van Engers
  • 14:30 – 14:45 Closing remarks