AI Ethics: We Need to Walk the Walk, Not Just Talk

Posted on September 21, 2020December 13, 2020 by Andra Keay

Join me at the ARM Dev Summit for an indepth presentation on ethics for robots and AI, and why that’s important, as I introduce in this post in ARM Blueprint. Plus, why we need license plates for robots! #goodrobots

AI Ethics: We Need to Walk the Walk, Not Just Talk

	April 2021
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			1 Robotics CoLab @Circuit Launch From $1500 Robotics CoLab @Circuit Launch From $1500 January 12, 2021 10:00 am - April 2, 2021 5:00 pm Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater Drive, Oakland, CA, USA See more details Startup Accelerator Meetings Startup Accelerator Meetings April 1, 2021 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm See more details Startup Accelerator Meeting Startup Accelerator Meeting April 1, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm See more details SVR Startup Pitch Workshop SVR Startup Pitch Workshop April 1, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm See more details • • • •	2 Robotics CoLab @Circuit Launch From $1500 Robotics CoLab @Circuit Launch From $1500 January 12, 2021 10:00 am - April 2, 2021 5:00 pm Circuit Launch, 8000 Edgewater Drive, Oakland, CA, USA See more details Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee April 2, 2021 8:45 am - 9:30 am See more details • •	3 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details •	4 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details •
5 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 April 5, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/93169418482?pwd=SDBUcnA1WE1lTWx1THRwNFRlaGVvZz09 See more details • •	6 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details •	7 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details Bots&Beer Silicon Valley Bots&Beer Silicon Valley April 7, 2021 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm See meetup for location See more details • •	8 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details SVR Board Meeting SVR Board Meeting April 8, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm See more details Startup Accelerator Meetings Startup Accelerator Meetings April 8, 2021 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm See more details Startup Accelerator Meeting Startup Accelerator Meeting April 8, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm See more details SVR Startup Accelerator SVR Startup Accelerator April 8, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm See more details • • • • •	9 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details "Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems" - Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University) "Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems" - Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University) April 9, 2021 11:00 am - 12:30 pm https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems: Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University) Abstract: Effective communication is key to successful multi-agent coordination. Yet it is far from obvious what, how and when information needs to be shared among agents that aim to solve cooperative tasks. In this talk, I discuss our recent work on using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to solve multi-agent coordination problems. In my first case-study, I show how we use GNNs to find a decentralized solution to the multi-agent path finding problem, which is known to be NP-hard. I demonstrate how our policy is able to achieve near-optimal performance, at a fraction of the real-time computational cost. Secondly, I show how GNN-based reinforcement learning can be leveraged to learn inter-agent communication policies. In this case-study, I demonstrate how non-shared optimization objectives can lead to adversarial communication strategies. Finally, I address the challenge of learning robust communication policies, enabling a multi-agent system to maintain high performance in the presence of anonymous non-cooperative agents that communicate faulty, misleading or manipulative information. Biography: Amanda Prorok is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Her mission is to find new ways of coordinating artificially intelligent agents (e.g., robots, vehicles, machines) to achieve common goals in shared physical and virtual spaces. Amanda Prorok has been honored by an ERC Starting Grant, an Amazon Research Award, an EPSRC New Investigator Award, an Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Award, and the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Award for the best thesis at EPFL in Computer Science. Further awards include Best Paper at DARS 2018, Finalist for Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper at ICRA 2017, Best Paper at BICT 2015, and MIT Rising Stars 2015. She serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), and Associate Editor for Autonomous Robots (AURO). Prior to joining Cambridge, Amanda Prorok was a postdoctoral researcher at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She completed her PhD at EPFL, Switzerland. Stream at: https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html See more details • •	10 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details •	11 National Robotics Week National Robotics Week April 3, 2021 - April 11, 2021 https://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/ See more details •
12 SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 April 12, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/93169418482?pwd=SDBUcnA1WE1lTWx1THRwNFRlaGVvZz09 See more details •	13 European Robotics Forum European Robotics Forum April 13, 2021 - April 15, 2021 See more details •	14 European Robotics Forum European Robotics Forum April 13, 2021 - April 15, 2021 See more details •	15 European Robotics Forum European Robotics Forum April 13, 2021 - April 15, 2021 See more details Startup Accelerator Meetings Startup Accelerator Meetings April 15, 2021 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm See more details Startup Accelerator Meeting Startup Accelerator Meeting April 15, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm See more details SVR Startup Accelerator SVR Startup Accelerator April 15, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm See more details • • • •	16	17	18
19 SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 April 19, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/93169418482?pwd=SDBUcnA1WE1lTWx1THRwNFRlaGVvZz09 See more details •	20	21 Online Robotics Job Fair Online Robotics Job Fair April 21, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-robotics-job-fair-tickets-104585977474 See more details •	22 Startup Accelerator Meetings Startup Accelerator Meetings April 22, 2021 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm See more details Startup Accelerator Meeting Startup Accelerator Meeting April 22, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm See more details SVR Startup Accelerator SVR Startup Accelerator April 22, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm See more details • • •	23 Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee April 23, 2021 8:45 am - 9:30 am See more details "Safety-Critical Control for Dynamic Robots: A Model-based and Data-driven Approach" - Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley) "Safety-Critical Control for Dynamic Robots: A Model-based and Data-driven Approach" - Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley) April 23, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html Safety-Critical Control for Dynamic Robots: A Model-based and Data-driven Approach: Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley) Abstract: Model-based controllers can be designed to provide guarantees on stability and safety for dynamical systems. In this talk, I will show how we can address the challenges of stability through control Lyapunov functions (CLFs), input and state constraints through CLF-based quadratic programs, and safety-critical constraints through control barrier functions (CBFs). However, the performance of model-based controllers is dependent on having a precise model of the system. Model uncertainty could lead not only to poor performance but could also destabilize the system as well as violate safety constraints. I will present recent results on using model-based control along with data-driven methods to address stability and safety for systems with uncertain dynamics. In particular, I will show how reinforcement learning as well as Gaussian process regression can be used along with CLF and CBF-based control to address the adverse effects of model uncertainty. Biography: Koushil Sreenath is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at UC Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI, in 2011. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the GRASP Lab at University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2013 and an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2013 to 2017. His research interest lies at the intersection of highly dynamic robotics and applied nonlinear control. His work on dynamic legged locomotion was featured on The Discovery Channel, CNN, ESPN, FOX, and CBS. His work on dynamic aerial manipulation was featured on the IEEE Spectrum, New Scientist, and Huffington Post. His work on adaptive sampling with mobile sensor networks was published as a book. He received the NSF CAREER, Hellman Fellow, Best Paper Award at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), and the Google Faculty Research Award in Robotics Stream at: https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html See more details • •	24	25 SVR Quarterly Report SVR Quarterly Report April 25, 2021 See more details •
26 SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 SVR Volunteer Meeting 2021 April 26, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm https://zoom.us/j/93169418482?pwd=SDBUcnA1WE1lTWx1THRwNFRlaGVvZz09 See more details •	27 Society, Robots and Us: Hiring for Inclusive Robotics Society, Robots and Us: Hiring for Inclusive Robotics April 27, 2021 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm https://societyrobotsandus.eventbrite.com See more details •	28	29 Startup Accelerator Meetings Startup Accelerator Meetings April 29, 2021 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm See more details Startup Accelerator Meeting Startup Accelerator Meeting April 29, 2021 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm See more details SVR Startup Accelerator SVR Startup Accelerator April 29, 2021 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm See more details • • •	30 Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee Women in Robotics - Mentoring Committee April 30, 2021 8:45 am - 9:30 am See more details •

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Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems: Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University)

Safety-Critical Control for Dynamic Robots: A Model-based and Data-driven Approach: Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley)