Giacomo Zanotti will present the PoliMi unit’s work “AI and risk: a philosophical analysis” at the Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS), to be held in Urbino (Italy) on 4-7 September 2023.
Algorithm and Prejudice: BRIOxAlkemy workshop at Il Tempo delle Donne, 8–10 September 2023, Triennale Milano (Triennale Lab)
Members of BRIO will present the first output of the collaboration BRIOxAlkemy in a workshop with title Algoritmo e Pregiudizio at the 10th edition of the festival Il Tempo delle Donne. The BRIO team will introduce and show the bias detection application developed in collaboration with Alkemy, the industrial partner of the project.
The workshop will take place at Triennale Lab of Triennale Milano (Palazzo dell’Arte, Viale Alemagna 6, 20121 – Milano) on
More information on how to participate at
Francesco A. Genco talking at PROGIC 2023 (Aug. 30 – Sep. 1 , 2023), Utrecht, the Netherlands
Francesco A. Genco will present at The Eleventh Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (PROGIC 2023) a talk with title “Testing and Trusting: A Typed Calculus for Reasoning about Probabilistic Processes”. The talk will take place on September 1 at 13:45 – 14:25 and will be about the line of work of the BRIO project concerning the low-level analysis of computational trust through its formalisation in typed probabilistic λ-calculus.
The Eleventh Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic takes place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from August 30 until September 1, 2023 and has a special focus on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
Giuseppe Primiero talking at CLMPST 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 24–29
Giuseppe Primiero will present at the Congress for Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST) a talk titled “Logics for Fair AI”, an overview of current work within the UNIMI Unit of the BRIO Project, as well as new work on the validity conditions for Machine Learning models within a Symposium on Philosophy of Science and Machine Learning.
The Congress for Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina from July 24 to 29, 2023.
BEWARE 2023 Workshop has been announced (with call for papers)
The 2nd international workshop on the emerging ethical aspects of AI, with a focus on Bias, Risk, Explainability and the role of Logic and Computational Logic. BEWARE23 is co-located with the AIxIA 2023 conference .
Aims and Scope
Current AI applications do not guarantee objectivity and are riddled with biases and legal difficulties. AI systems need to perform safely, but problems of opacity, bias and risk are pressing. Definitional and foundational issues about what kinds of bias and risks are involved in opaque AI technologies are still very much open. Moreover, AI is challenging Ethics and brings the need to rethink the basis of Ethics.
In this context, it is natural to look for theories, tools and technologies to address the problem of automatically detecting biases and implementing ethical decision-making. Logic, Computational Logic and formal ontologies have great potential in this area of research, as logic rules are easily comprehensible by humans and favour the representation of causality, which is a crucial aspect of ethical decision-making. Nonetheless, their expressivity and transparency need to be integrated within conceptual taxonomies and socio-economic analyses that place AI technologies in their broader context of application and determine their overall impact.
This workshop addresses issues of logical, ethical and epistemological nature in AI through the use of interdisciplinary approaches. We aim to bring together researchers in AI, philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social science, etc., to promote collaborations and enhance discussions towards the development of trustworthy AI methods and solutions that users and stakeholders consider technologically reliable and socially acceptable.
The workshop invites submissions from computer scientists, philosophers, economists and sociologists wanting to discuss contributions ranging from the formulation of epistemic and normative principles for AI, their conceptual representation in formal models, to their development in formal design procedures and translation into computational implementations.
Topics of interest include, but are not at all limited to:
- Conceptual and formal definitions of bias, risk and opacity in AI
- Epistemological and normative principles for fair and trustworthy AI
- Ethical AI and the challenges brought by AI to Ethics
- Explainable AI
- Uncertainty in AI
- Ontological modelling of trustworthy as opposed to biased AI systems
- Defining trust and its determinants for implementation in AI systems
- Methods for evaluating and comparing the performances of AI systems
- Approaches to verification of ethical behaviour
- Logic Programming Applications in Machine Ethics
- Integrating Logic Programing with methods for Machine Ethics and Explainable AI
- Submission
The workshop invites (possibly non-original) submissions of FULL PAPERS (up to 15 pages) and SHORT PAPERS (up to 5 pages). Short papers are particularly suitable to present work in progress, extended abstracts, doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. Note that all papers will undergo a careful peer-reviewer process and, if accepted, camera-ready versions of the papers will be published on the AIxIA subseries of CEUR proceedings (Scopus indexed).
Manuscripts must be formatted using the 1-column CEUR-ART Style (you can access the Overleaf template here). For more information, please see the CEUR website http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=beware23.
Proceedings
CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Please refer the workshop website for updates regarding the proceedings, and a potential special issue.
Organizers
Guido Boella, Università di Torino
Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro, Università degli Studi di Verona
Abeer Dyoub, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Laura Gorrieri, Università di Torino
Francesca A. Lisi, University of Bari ”Aldo Moro”
Chiara Manganini, Università degli Studi di Milano
Giuseppe Primiero, Università degli Studi di Milano
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 10 September 2023
Notification: 10 October 2023
Camera ready: 20 October 2023
Mattia Petrolo speaking at LICPOS 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 12–15 July 2023
Mattia Petrolo is presenting a talk with title “Two dogmas of Trustworthy AI” at the section Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Computation of the 4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science (LICPOS 2023) which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from the 12 until the 15 July 2023.
Conference website: https://lisbonicpos2023.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/
Mattia Pertolo speaking at SILFS 2023, Urbino, Italy, 4–7 September 2023
Mattia Petrolo will give a talk titled “A logical approach to algorithmic opacity” at the Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS) which will be held in Urbino, Italy from the 4 until the 7 September 2023.
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/uniurb.it/silfs2023/home-page
Giuseppe Primiero talking at the event Building Bridges through Multidisciplinary Cooperation: Perspective Approaches for Inclusive Artificial Intelligence
Giuseppe Primiero is going to talk about Logics for Fair Artificial Intelligence on May 30, 2023 (15:15–15:45) at the event Building Bridges through Multidisciplinary Cooperation: Perspective Approaches for Inclusive Artificial Intelligence (Room 303 – Via Celoria N° 18, Milan – Building N° 3) organised in the context of the project Human Hall (University of Milan).
Giuseppe Primiero presenting BRIO research at ILLC, Amsterdam
Giuseppe Primiero will present current work of the LUCI UNIMI BRIO Unit at the Workshop on Reasoning about Responsible Agency in AI to be held at the Institute for Logic, Language and Information in Amsterdam, 16-17 May 2023.
https://sites.google.com/view/reasoningaboutresponsibility/programme?authuser=0
Salvatore Giugliano joins the team BRIO
Salvatore Giugliano joins the project BRIO as a postdoc at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Naples, Federico II.
His postdoc will start on May 1, 2023.
Salvatore Giugliano received the M.S. degree in Computer Science and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in 2019 and 2023, respectively. He is currently a researcher with the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of University of Naples Federico II. His current research interests include Artificial Intelligence methods and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches for explaining the AI system’s decisions.