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This workshop brings together researchers from different fields to explore a range of issues arising at the intersection of games and artificial intelligence, including the ethics of AI, the construction of artificial agents, and the use of games for AI development.
Programme
09.00. Registration and coffee
09.30. Welcome
09.45. Keynote, Marek Havrda (GoodAI): On AI and Video Games
10.30. Refreshments
10.45. Panel 1: Games for AI Development
- Jens Kipper (Bielefeld): Intelligent Evaluation, or Thinking without Search
- Nathan Wildman and Amanda Cawston (Tilburg): Shall we play a game? The role of games in the moral education of AIs
- Theo Stone (Amsterdam): Caring-For, Caring-About, and AI Relationships for Your Healthcare
12.00. Panel 1 discussion
12.30. Lunch
14.00 Panel 2: AIs inside Games
- Jaroslav Švelch (Bergen): Is the Alien Cheating? Vernacular Epistemologies of AI in Alien: Isolation
- Shahar Avin (Cambridge): Superintelligence Arms Races in Civilization
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15.15. Panel 2 discussion
15.45. Coffee
16.00. Panel 3: Ethics, Authenticity, and Empathy in Games
- Rebecca Davnall (Liverpool): Is There Anything Morally Distinctive About Artificial Persons?
- Belinda Reilly (Nottingham): Authenticity in VR and AI
- Al Baker (Leeds): Game Art, AIs, and Ludic Empathy
17.15. Panel 3 discussion
17.45. Workshop close
Tickets available here.