Due to the rapid development of robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) a number of ethical and legal questions have risen: Should we further rely on the modern philosophical division between subject and object? How should we treat legal liability problems regarding "autonomous objects"? Should engineers take into account ethical problems when building robotics and AI?

Those questions will be discussed from experts all over the world at the conference on the 23th of March 2020.

Program:

• Opening remarks (10:00): Prof. Nikolaus Forgó (Vienna University)

• 1^st Session (10:30-12:00): Autonomous robots and their subjectivity
  Moderator: Prof. Tetsuya Yamashita (Kyoto University)
  Panelists:
  Prof. Markus Vincze (Vienna University)
  Dr. Yuji Kawai (Osaka University)
  Prof. Christiane Wendehorst (Vienna University)

• Lunch break (12:00-13:30)

•  2^nd Session (13:30-15:00): “Legal and ethical issues regarding to collaboration between human and intelligent robot”
  Moderator: Prof. Daisuke Fukamizu (Shinsu University/Nagashima Ohno Tsunematsu)
  Panelists:
  Prof. Raja Chatila (Pierre and Marie Curie University)
  Dr. Giulio Mecacci (Delft University of Technology)
  Prof. Tatsuhiko Inatani (Kyoto University)
  

• Coffee break (15:00-15:30)

• 3^rd Session (15:30-17:00): “Future robotics for Najimi society”
  Moderator: Prof. Tatsuhiko Inatani (Kyoto University)
  Panelists:
  Prof. Minoru Asada (Osaka University)
  Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh (Vienna University)
  Prof. Georg Borges (Saarland University)

• Ending remarks (17:30): Prof. Tatsuhiko Inatani (Kyoto University)

Further information on the final program will available here. Please register here ID-organisation@univie.ac.at.