Robotics, AI, and Humanity

1.       Introduction, overview and cross cutting conclusions. Joachim von Braun and co-editors (based on the conference concept and statement of the conference)


 I) FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN AI AND ROBOTICS

2. Could a robot be conscious? Lessons from philosophy. Markus Gabriel

3.      Could a robot be conscious? Lessons from the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness. Stanislas Dehaene (based on 2017 SCIENCE article if approved)

4.      Differences between Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems. Wolf Singer

5.      Foundations of artificial intelligence and effective universal induction. Jörg Zimmermann and Armin Cremers

 II) AI AND ROBOTICS CHANGING THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY (WORK, FARMING, SERVICES AND POVERTY)

6.      Robotics and the global organization of production. Koen De Backer

7.      AI/robotics implications for poverty and marginalization. Joachim von Braun

8.      Robotics for sustainable Crop Production. Ciryll Stachniss

9.      Robotics and AI for food security and innovation. Maximo Torero

10.  Robotics in the classroom. Hopes or threats? Pierre Léna

 III) ROBOTICS, AI, AND MILITARIZED CONFLICT

11.  Designing robots for the battlefield: state of the art. Bruce Swett

12.  Military applications of AI and the relevance of virtue ethics. Gregory M. Reichberg and Henrik Syse

13.  The use of AI in cyber war: ethical and regulatory challenges. Sophie-Charlotte Fischer

14.  AI Winter or AI that Saves the World? - AI and nuclear deterrence. Nobumasa Akiyama

 IV) AI/ROBOT - HUMAN INTERACTIONS: REGULATORY AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS15.  Can

Joachim von Braun is Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn University, and Professor for economic and technological change. He received his doctoral degree in agricultural economics from the University of Goettingen, Germany. His research is on economic development, science and technology policy, poverty reduction, food and nutrition security, resource economics and trade. von Braun is President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican; member of German National Academy of Science - Leopoldina, Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), Academy of Arts and Science North Rhine-Westphalia, fellow of African Academy of Science and of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. From 2002 to 2009, he was director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington DC. He was president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).

Margaret S. Archer has a PhD from London School of Economics, is a sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick, UK, where she was Professor of Sociology. She was also a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor Archer served as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences until 2019. She was President of the International Sociological Association 1986-90. Her research is in the area of philosophy of social science. It has fundamentally been concerned with the "problem of structure and agency", that is with justifying these as irreducible entities with their own emergent properties and powers. She is working on the manner in which human reflexivity serves to mediate between our personal concerns and our structural conditioning as the next stage in the above project.

Gregory M. Reichberg is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He