AISafety 2023: The IJCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety 2023 Sheraton Grand Macao Macao, SAR, China, August 19-21, 2023 |
Conference website | https://www.aisafetyw.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisafety2023 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 11, 2023 |
Submission deadline | May 16, 2023 |
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.
Attendance Policy
AISafety is strictly planned and MUST be conducted as an IN-PERSON-ONLY event.
Given that on-line streaming may not be ensured and that the overhead necessary to support an hybrid workshop mode is not acceptable, all presenters should not consider virtual presentation as a possible mean and, therefore, they should foresee an on-site, face-to-face participation.
In exceptional cases, the organizing committee shall decide whether additional means for participation are acceptable (e.g. presentation by a third party attending the conference).
All authors submitting a paper (Full/Position) or technical talk proposal implicitly agree with this in-person-only attending policy.
Submission Guidelines
You are invited to submit:
- Full technical papers (7-9 pages, including references, annexes, appendixes or any other relevant material),
- Proposals for technical Talks (up to one-page abstract including short Bio of the main speaker), without associated paper,
- Position papers (5-7 pages, including references, annexes, appendixes or any other relevant material).
Manuscripts must be submitted as PDF files via EasyChair online submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisafety2023
Please keep your paper format according to CEUR Formatting Instructions (two-column format). The CEUR author kit can be downloaded from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
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.
The workshop proceedings will be published on CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org/). CEUR-WS is “archival” in the sense that a paper cannot be removed once it’s published. Authors will keep the copyright of their papers as per CC BY 4.0. In other words, CEUR-WS is similar to Arxiv. In any case, authors of accepted papers can opt out and decide not to include their paper in the proceedings. We will inform the authors about the procedure in due term.
We are happy to receive papers that have not been accepted for IJCAI, and we welcome the review comments if the authors want to send them as additional material (NB. reviews/comments will not be included in the submitted/final manuscript).
For further and up-to-date information on submission guidelines please look at the website: https://www.aisafetyw.org/
Important Dates
- Abstract Submission: May 11, 2023 – midnight, AOE time (extended)
- Full Manuscript Submission: May 16, 2023 – midnight, AOE time (extended)
- Acceptance Notification: June 05, 2023 – midnight, AOE time (extended)
- Camera Ready Submission: June 19, 2023 – midnight, AOE time (extended)
Committees
Organizing committee
- Gabriel Pedroza, ANSYS, France
- Xiaowei Huang, University of Liverpool, UK
- Xin Cynthia Chen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Andreas Theodorou, Umeå University, Sweden
- Nikolaos Matragkas, CEA LIST, France
Steering committee
- Huascar Espinoza, KDT JU, Belgium
- Mauricio Castillo-Effen, Lockheed Martin, USA
- José Hernández-Orallo, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Richard Mallah, Future of Life Institute, USA
- John McDermid, University of York, UK
Program Committee
- Please look at the Website: https://www.aisafetyw.org/
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: aisafety2023 at easychair dot org