AISafety 2022: The IJCAI-ECAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety 2022 Vienna, Austria, July 24-25, 2022 |
Conference website | https://www.aisafetyw.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisafety2022 |
Submission deadline | May 13, 2022 |
Scope
In the last decade, there has been a growing concern on risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Safety is becoming increasingly relevant as humans are progressively ruled out from the decision/control loop of intelligent, and learning-enabled machines. In particular, the technical foundations and assumptions on which traditional safety engineering principles are based, are inadequate for systems in which AI algorithms, in particular Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, are interacting with the physical world at increasingly higher levels of autonomy. We must also consider the connection between the safety challenges posed by present-day AI systems, and more forward-looking research focused on more capable future AI systems, up to and including Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
This workshop seeks to explore new ideas on AI safety with particular focus on addressing the following questions:
- How can we engineer trustable AI software architectures?
- What is the status of existing approaches in ensuring AI and ML safety and what are the gaps?
- What safety engineering considerations are required to develop safe human-machine interaction in automated decision-making systems?
- What AI safety considerations and experiences are relevant from industry?
- How can we characterize or evaluate AI systems according to their potential risks and vulnerabilities?
- How can we develop solid technical visions and paradigm shift articles about AI Safety?
- How do metrics of capability and generality affect the level of risk of a system and how trade-offs can be found with performance?
- How do AI system feature for example ethics, explainability, transparency, and accountability relate to, or contribute to, its safety?
- How to evaluate AI safety?
The AISafety workshop seeks a new perspective of systems engineering where multiple disciplines such as AI and safety engineering are viewed as a global whole, while considering ethical and legal issues, in order to build trustable intelligent autonomy.
List of Topics
We invite theoretical, experimental and position papers covering any aspect of AI Safety including, but not limited to:
- Safety in AI-based system architectures
- Continuous V&V and predictability of AI safety properties
- Runtime monitoring and (self-)adaptation of AI safety
- Accountability, responsibility and liability of AI-based systems
- Explainable AI and interpretable AI
- Avoiding negative side effects in AI-based systems
- Role and effectiveness of oversight: corrigibility and interruptibility
- Loss of values and the catastrophic forgetting problem
- Confidence, self-esteem and the distributional shift problem
- Safety of AGI systems and the role of generality
- Reward hacking and training corruption
- Self-explanation, self-criticism and the transparency problem
- Human-machine interaction safety
- Regulating AI-based systems: safety standards and certification
- Human-in-the-loop and the scalable oversight problem
- Evaluation platforms for AI safety
- AI safety education and awareness
- Experiences in AI-based safety-critical systems, including industrial processes, health, automotive systems, robotics, critical infrastructures, among others.
Submission Guidelines
You are invited to submit:
- Full technical papers (6-8 pages), or
- Position (short) papers (4-6 pages), or
- Proposals for technical Talks (up to one-page abstract including short Bio of the main speaker, without associated paper).
Manuscripts must be submitted as PDF files via Easychair online submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisafety2022
Please keep your paper format according to IJCAI-ECAI Formatting Instructions (two-column format). For Formatting instructions, Latex Styles and Word Template, see the IJCAI authors kit that can be downloaded from: https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit
Papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee (2-3 reviewers per paper). The workshop follows a single-blind reviewing process. However, we will also accept anonymized submissions.
We are happy to receive papers that have not been accepted for IJCAI-ECAI, and we welcome the review comments if the authors want to send them as additional material.
The workshop proceedings will be published on CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org/). We are also planning a Special Issue in a Journal, after the workshop.
Important Dates
- Abstract Submission: May 13, 2022 – AOE time
- Papers Submission: May 20, 2022 – AOE time
- Acceptance Notification: June 03, 2022 – AOE time
- Camera Ready Submission: June 17, 2022 – AOE time
Committees
Organizing committee
- Gabriel Pedroza, CEA LIST, France
- Xin Cynthia Chen, University of Hong Kong, China
- José Hernández-Orallo, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Xiaowei Huang, University of Liverpool, UK
- Huáscar Espinoza, KDT JU, Belgium
- Richard Mallah, Future of Life Institute, USA
- John McDermid, University of York, UK
- Mauricio Castillo-Effen, Lockheed Martin, USA
Program Committee
- Please look at the Website: https://www.aisafetyw.org/
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: aisafety2022 at easychair dot org