Man-Machine & Values
Tilburg University’s Impact team organizes a seminar on November 14, 2019 titled ‘Man-Machine & Values’. The seminar addresses the impact of autonomous, self-learning technology such as robots and applications of artificial intelligence. The central issue is about value alignment, i.e. how human values can be embedded in human-technology interaction and how the social sciences and humanities can contribute to this.
Prof. Raja Chatila, Professor and Director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris (UPMC) and Director of the Laboratory of Excellence “SMART” will deliver the keynote speech on human-machine interaction.
Prof. Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Distinguished University Professor, chair for Dutch and European Constitutional Law at Tilburg University and former Minister of Justice, will comment on the keynote speech.
During the seminar, two rounds of parallel sessions will be held, moderated by researchers from Tilburg University. The aim is to discuss the implications of the new technologies with societal stakeholders and other researchers in fields such as health, law, employment, education, communication, famine, European values et cetera. The results of the seminar will serve to set an impact-driven research and innovation agenda, based on co-creation and collaboration.
The seminar departs from the overall question: How can we build the most social and trusted robot in the world, where ‘robot’ comprises all forms of artificial intelligence and autonomous technology.
Program
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12.00 - 12.45 |
Welcome and Lunch |
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12.45 - 13.00 |
Welcome address |
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13.00 - 13.45 |
Keynote Prof. Raja Chatila |
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13.45 - 14.00 |
Comments by Prof. Ernst Hirsch Ballin |
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14.00 - 15.00 |
Workshops Round 1 |
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15.00 - 15.30 |
Coffee and Tea Break |
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15.30 - 16.30 |
Workshop Round 2 |
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16.30 - 17.15 |
Wrapping up and setting the research and impact agenda |
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17.15 - 18.15 |
Drinks and networking |
See the description of the workshops below.
Please make sure to register in order to attend the seminar. In the registration form, you can indicate your workshop of preference. We kindly request you to register for a workshop in both workshop rounds.
We would like to remind you that in the case you already pre-registered, it is still necessary to register for the workshops. We would also like to point out that the number of places is limited and that the registrations are processed in order of submission.
Practical Information
Location: Cinecitta, Willem II Straat 29, 5038 BA Tilburg
Cinecitta is located on walking distance of the railway station (Centraal Station) of Tilburg.
Nearby parking;
Parkeergarage Knegtel, Gasthuisring 60, 5041 DT Tilburg
Parkeergarage Pieter Vreedeplein, Telegraafstraat 20, 5038 BM Tilburg
Description Workshops Round 1
Automated Decision-Making: Transparency by Design
- Dr. Jurgen Goossens, Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law
In this workshop participants will actively engage in designing the conditions necessary to safeguard the public values of transparency, trust and legitimacy, when addressing strategic policy objectives in the digital era. We will focus on (semi-)automated decision-making when public authority is exercised towards citizens. We will discuss the use of algorithms in decision-making processes from a legal, ethical, societal and technical perspective.
Given the complexity and ‘black box’ character of the use of algorithms and especially self-learning algorithms (AI), we will pay close attention to the end-user perspective of citizens who should be able to understand how ‘the machine’ comes to a decision and who might be entitled to the possibility of a ‘human intervention’. In order to establish trust of citizens and legitimacy of administrative decision-making, citizens should be well-informed and courts should be enabled to effectively review the decision-making process. Therefore, public bodies and the legislature should ensure transparency by design. But how?
In collaboration with:
Prof. dr. ir. Rinie van Est, Research Coordination Digital Society, Rathenau Instituut
Technology, Work & Labour Relations
- Prof. dr. Ton Wilthagen, Institutional and Legal Aspects of the Labor Market
- Mr. Robbert Coenmans, PhD Tilburg Law School, department of Labour Law and Social Policy
This workshop aims to discuss the likely impact that technology might have on work. Explaining why this revolves less around mass unemployment and more on how work itself might change for the better or worse. It will focus on threats to the labour market, but also on the opportunity to use technology to have people gain access to the labour market which can't currently. Furthermore it will discuss what the optimum modes of intervening in these process might be and how we can learn a lot from already existing systems that govern regular labour relations. We aim to discuss these matters in an interactive manner both with the audience as well as an expert from the field.
Trustee’s Values: Europe’s Moral Landscape Explained
- Dr. Tim Reeskens, Associate professor Tilburg School for Behavioural Sciences
- Dr. Inge Sieben, Associate professor Tilburg School for Behavioural Sciences
- Dr. Loek Halman, Associate professor Tilburg School for Behavioural Sciences
The aim of this workshop is to give an overview of similarities and differences in value priorities across Europe. Based on five waves of European Values Study (1981-2017), it will be shown what Europeans find important, to what extent variation across Europe exists, and what explains changes over countries and over time. In addition to portraying Europe’s moral landscape, we will particularly focus on aspects most relevant to Trustee, namely trust, as well as opinions towards technology.
Can Chatbots Improve Our Well-Being?
- Prof. dr. Marjolijn Antheunis, Professor Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Science
- Dr. Christine Liebrecht, Assistant Professor Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Science
Can we be friends with chatbots? Can we use chatbots for mental therapy? Or are chatbots more useful to reach companies with customer service questions? The use of chatbots – dialogue-based programs designed to show humanlike behavior – in both social and customer service settings is increasing exponentially. Which characteristics should chatbots contain to positively enhance people’s behavior and perceptions? In this workshop, findings will be shared on a recent experiment conducted at Lowlands Festival on digital confessions. In this experiment the willingness to disclose secrets to a chatbot is examined. In communication with a chatbot, people can feel more anonymous, which can stimulate people to share their deepest secrets with the chatbot. Also the non-judgemental nature of a chatbot can enhance confessions to a chatbot. But does confessing to a chatbot improves the person’s well-being to the same extent as does confessing to a human?
Description Workshops Round 2
Criminal Liability in Case of Autonomous Decision-Making
- Prof. dr. Matthijs Nelemans, Professor of Financial Law Enforcement
Machines can cause serious damages due to errors or may even be employed for criminal means. What does it mean for establishing criminal liability if machines were to become more autonomous? Can we still apply notions of foreseeability, imputation, causality and mental state? And to what extent may criminal law concepts be used as part of design principles for new technologies.
The Zero Hunger Lab: Man-Machine Interaction for SDG-2
- Prof. dr. ir Hein Fleuren, Scientific Director Zero Hunger Lab
- Drs. Perry Heijne, Program Director Zero Hunger Lab
The Zero Hunger Lab (ZHL) is a recent Lab established by Tilburg University within Tilburg School of Economics and Management. ZHL is very much inspired by the Impact agenda of this University and develops data science models to aid in achieving zero hunger. In this workshop we will give some background on the Lab, show some applications and outline some of the motivation and values that have led to this initiative. But we will also show a few examples of difficulties we encounter. For instance, when it comes to values we face the situation that our algorithms decide who will receive aid and who doesn’t.
Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Prof.dr. Emiel Krahmer, Professor Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Science
- Dr. Paul Vogt, Associate Professor Social Robotics and Language Development, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) make it possible to develop (social) robots that can play a crucial role in education. These developments create both risks and opportunities, which drive our workshop. Our aim is to discuss how robots and AI can support, improve and innovate contemporary (primary, secondary and vocational) education, for topics ranging from language learning to computational thinking. To this aim, we have three short presentations expressing views on these issues from different perspectives: academic, primary education, and vocational education. These presentations are followed by a general discussion on the issues raised.
In collaboration with:
Carolien Schiks, Servicebureau Kinderopvang
Wim van der Maas ROC Tilburg en MindLabs
Show Me Your Phone And I'll Tell You Who You Are
- Drs. Ylva Hendriks Msc, Phd Tilburg School for Behavioural Sciences
- Drs. Bas Willemse Msc, Phd Tilburg School for Behavioural Sciences
In the workshop, ethical implications of leveraging data from smartphones to discover people's susceptibility to effective elements in health apps are discussed.
Technology is increasingly capable of steering people’s decision-making. The research project presented in this interactive workshop focusses on apps for health behavior change. We aim to investigate whether ‘smartphone usage data’ can be used to predict how people can be motivated to make healthy choices.