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Socially-responsible research in Cognitive Systems: No-win or win-win?

Sunday, November 3, 2013 - 12:26

Tony Prescott opened the 4th EUCogIII Members Conference on the "Social and Ethical Aspects of Cognitive Systems". In his talk he points out the change in the way the EC thinks about science and the impact that that has on the way we do science, and on what science gets supported and funded. He leaves an open question for discussion: is the ethical assesment that is now required for cognitive systems projects just a hurdle or it can help us do better research?. Here are the slides.

Watch his talk, check the references and the related tweets that where posted during the conference, and keep the discussion at #robotsandyou.

Prof. Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield

Socially-responsible research in Cognitive Systems: No-win or win-win?

Related Tweets:

Great to see @tonyjprescott getting into the funding landscape and politics of science. Science no longer neutral. #robotsandyou

— Alan Winfield (@alan_winfield) October 23, 2013

#robotsandyou Science is how we FIND OUT about risk, if we stop doing science (openly) then we stop learning about risks–that’s dangerous.

— Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson) October 23, 2013

@EUCogNetwork @tonyjprescott It seems that scientists have to do a lot more than just #science #robotsandyou

— Georgios Pierris (@gpierris) October 23, 2013

Love Prescott's distinction between discovery-knowledge productionAre we sure it's knowledge that gets produced? @EUCogNetwork #robotsandyou

— MinaGrey (@grey_mina) October 23, 2013

@gstojanov @tonyjprescott @EUCogNetwork Typically market forces, I guess - which was the reason for my question

— Murray Shanahan (@mpshanahan) October 23, 2013

Talk references:

Attachments:

prescott_eucog_ethics.pdf