We have an action-packed lineup planned for We Robot 2019. The main conference is April 12-13, with an optional workshop day on April 11. I’ve put the schedule below; you should register now for We Robot 2019 if you haven’t already.
Friday April 12, 2019
| Friday, April 12, 2019 | |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Check- in & Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome & Introductions |
| 9:15-10:15 | The Reasonable Coder by Petros Terzis (University of Winchester) Discussant: Brian Choi |
| 10:15-11:15 | The Institutional Life of Algorithms: Lessons from California’s Money Bail Reform Act by Alicia Solow-Niederman (UCLA School of Law), Guy Van den Broeck (UCLA), & YooJung Choi (UCLA) Discussant: Kristian Lum |
| 11:15-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Reap What You Sow? Precision Agriculture and The Privacy of Farm Data by Karen Levy (Cornell University), Solon Barocas (Cornell University), & Alexandra Mateescu(Data & Society Research Institute) Discussant: George Kantor |
| 12:30-12:45 | Lightening Poster Session |
| 12:45-1:45 | LUNCH |
| 1:45-3:15 | Panel: AI & Authorship Moderator: Kate Darling
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| 3:15-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-4:30 | Delivery Robots and the Influence of Warehouse Logic on Public Spaces by Mason Marks (Yale Law School & NYU Law School Discussant: Kristian Thomasen |
| 4:30-4:45 | Break |
| 4:45-5:45 | Toward a Comprehensive View of the Influence of Artificial Intelligence on International Affairs by Jesse Woo (Kyoto University) Discussant: Heather Roff |
| 5:45-6:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 6:00-7:00 | Poster Session & Reception |
| 7:30-9:30 | Conference Dinner @ Mayfair Hotel, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida |
Saturday April 13, 2019
| Saturday, April 13, 2019 | |
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| 8:00-8:30 | Check- in & Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:30 | Emerging Legal and Policy Trends in Recent Robot Science Fiction by Robin R Murphy (Texas A&M University) Discussant: Kevin Bankston |
| 9:30-10:30 | Taking Futures Seriously: Forecasting as Method in Robotics Law and Policy by Stephanie Ballard (University of Washington) & Ryan Calo (University of Washington) Discussant: TBA |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-11:45 | Administering Artificial Intelligence by Alicia Solow-Niederman (UCLA School of Law Discussant: Michael Froomkin |
| 11:45-12:00 | Break |
| 12:00-1:00 | Using The Robot Koseki – Using Japanese Family Law as a Model for Regulating Robots by Colin P. Jones (Doshisha Law School) Discussant: Hideyuki Matsumi |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | Why the Moral Machine is a Monster by Abby Everett Jaques (MIT) Discussant: Jason Millar |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break |
| 3:15-4:45 | Panel: Robot/Human Handoffs Moderator: Madeleine Elish
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| 4:45-5:00 | Final Remarks |
Workshop: Thursday April 11, 2019
| Workshop Preliminary Schedule, April 11 | |
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| 9:00-10:00 | This is not Magic: Basic Technical Concepts for the Latest Developments in Robotics & AI Bill Smart & Cindy Grimm |
| 10:00-11:00 | Alexa, What’s a Tort? It Sounds Delicious: Basic Legal Concepts for the Latest Developments in Robotics & AI Ryan Calo & Kristen Thomasen; Woodrow Hartzog moderating |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better: Basic Economic Concepts for the Latest Developments in Robotics & AI Rob Seamans (NYU Stern) |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Don’t Look at Me Like That: The Latest Developments in Social Science/Philosophy for Robotics & AI Madeleine Elish, Kate Darling & Ari Waldman |
| 2:30-3:30 | We’re Not Gonna Take I.T.: Advocacy in Robotics and AI Jay Stanley (ACLU), Kevin Bankston & Kathrine Pratt |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:00 | Get Ready for the Robot Olympics: Japan’s “Robotics 2020” Policy Initiative Fumio Shimpo, Hideyuki Matsumi & Takayuki Kato; Woodrow Hartzog moderating |
| 5:00-6:30 | Robots and Academics: The Nerdiest Trivia of All Time (plus light appetizers) Rebecca Crootof, Howard Chizeck & Woody Hartzog |
