There are many ways to avoid responsibility, for example, explaining what happens as the work of the gods, fate, society, or the system. For engineers, "technology" or "the organization" will serve this purpose quite well. We may distinguish at least nine (related) senses of "responsibility", the most important of which are: (a) responsibility-as-causation (the storm is responsible for flooding...

In this paper we explore the trend towards the production of "ontologies" as part of the development of knowledge based systems, both in general AI and in the legal domain in particular. We discuss four examples of this kind of work in the legal domain and identify areas on which future work might be directed.

Academics and other researchers regularly engage in strategic interactions— bargaining, cooperation, collaboration, etc. Given this strategic setting, we ask: how do the dynamics of social learning in epistemic communities influence outcomes of various actors? We focus, in particular, on minority groups in academia. As we show, evolutionary game theoretic models indicate that such actors may be...

Students will be more likely motivated to pursue a field of study if they encounter relevant, exciting, and interesting challenges early in their studies. The NSF CCLI project “Machine Learning Laboratory Experiences for Introducing Undergraduates to Artificial Intelligence” uses machine learning as a unifying theme to teach diverse artificial intelligence (AI) topics in the context of an intro...

In this article, the authors outline how a doctoral student came to use autoethnography within a narrative inquiry study exploring the experiences of being an adult child of a parent with a psychosis. Throughout the article, they discuss the researcher’s experiences and identify techniques they found useful in preparing for the present research process. As a qualitative research method, autoeth...

Online communities are popular sites for collective sensemaking. This study explores sensemaking in one such community following the closure of Olint Corp, a highly successful Jamaican investment club. After Olint’s disbanding, Jamaicans reconnected through online communities to make sense of their financial losses, to make sense of Olint – seen variously as an altruistic endeavour, a global cu...

The paper considers a discrete stochastic multicriteria problem. This problem can be defined by a finite set of actions A, a set of attributes X and a set of evaluations E. It is assumed that the performance probability distributions for each action on each attribute are known. A new procedure for such a problem is proposed. It is based on two concepts: stochastic dominance and interactive appr...

Previous research in Dialectical Inquiry (DI), Devil’s Advocacy (DA) and Consensus (C) based approaches has primarily evaluated outcome variables such as the performance outcome quality, process and solution satisfaction and attraction to group. However, no prior study has looked at the process level variables such as the type and management strategies of conflict, nor the productivity of the c...

This paper examines the paperclip apocalypse concern for artificial general intelligence. This arises when a superintelligent AI with a simple goal (ie., producing paperclips) accumulates power so that all resources are devoted towards that goal and are unavailable for any other use. Conditions are provided under which a paper apocalypse can arise but the model also shows that, under certain ar...

Robot Competition and Exhibition. A decade of contests and exhibitions have inspired innovation and research in AI robotics. Here we look back at the origins of the contest and how it evolved. We also reflect on how the contest has served as an arena for important debates in the AI and robotics communities. The article closes with a speculative look forward to the next decade of AAAI robot comp...