A track of the International Workshop on AI Value Engineering and AI Compliance Meechanisms (VECOMP 2024), affiliated with the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024)
19–24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
With the development and spread of AI techniques, ensuring the adherence of AI's behaviour to legal and ethical principles has become a major subject. General fear of the unintended effects of AI systems, by its actions and its use of personal data, has led to a strong demand for trustworthy AI. This is a central concern that has become prominent both in public opinion and policy maker's agenda. The EU High-Level Expert Group on AI, convened by the European Commission in 2018, published a report on "Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI" stating that AI systems should be:
lawful, complying with all applicable laws and regulations
ethical, ensuring adherence to ethical principles and values
The VALE track of the VECOMP 2024 workshop focuses on the second issue: ensuring AI respects human values. To achieve this, there is a need to develop software systems that reason about human values and norms, implement these values through norms, and ensure the alignment of behaviour with those values and norms. We argue that just as values guide our own morality, values can guide the morality of software agents and systems, bringing machine morality closer to reality. The result would be value-aware systems that take value-aligned decisions, interpret human behaviour in terms of values and enrich human reasoning by enhancing the human's value-awareness.
Today there is a growing wealth of work in the field of AI on accounting for human values and working towards value-aligned behaviour. The VALE Track intends to bring in research on value engineering together and foster in-depth discussions on the topic.
We note that the VALE Track of VECOMP 2024 is a continuation of the past and successful VALE workshop at ECAI 2023.
The relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Value and norm representation
Value and norm learning
Value and norm agreement
Value and norm conflict resolution
Value-driven argumentation and negotiation
Value-driven decision making
Value-driven system design
Value-alignment
Value-driven explainability
Legal questions in value and norm enforcement
07/11/2024 Photos of the event are now available online!
17/10/2024 The post-proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Previous proceedings can be accessed at: Springer's VALE Proceedings.
Paper submission deadline: 31 May 2024 14 June 2024
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2024 25 July 2024
Camera-ready submission deadline: 15 August 2024
VECOMP workshop: 19–20 October 2024 (to be confirmed)
The VALE Track of VECOMP 2024 is supported by the following projects:
The EU funded VALAWAI project, with Grant no. 101070930
The Spanish funded VAE project, with Grant no. TED2021-131295B-C31 /C32 / C33
The EU funded MUHAI project, with Grant no. 951846