{"title":"Further Thoughts on Defining f(x) for Ethical Machines: Ethics, Rational Choice, and Risk Analysis","authors":"Clayton Peterson","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133203","url":null,"abstract":"There is a tendency to anthropomorphize artificial intelligence (AI) and reify it as a person. From the perspective of machine ethics and ethical AI, this has resulted in the belief that truly autonomous ethical agents (i.e., machines and algorithms) can be defined, and that machines could, by themselves, behave ethically and perform actions that are justified from a normative standpoint. Under this assumption, and given that utilities and risks are generally seen as quantifiable, many scholars have seen consequentialism (utilitarianism) and rational choice theory as likely candidates to be implemented in automated ethical decision procedures, for instance to assess and manage risks as well as maximize expected utility. Building on a recent example from the machine ethics literature, we use computer simulations to argue that technical issues with ethical ramifications leave room for reasonable disagreement even when algorithms are based on ethical and rational foundations such as consequentialism and rational choice theory. By doing so, our aim is to illustrate the limitations of automated behavior and ethical AI and, incidentally, to raise awareness on the limits of so-called ethical agents.","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123267025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsupervised Keyword Extraction for Hashtag Recommendation in Social Media","authors":"Behafarid Mohammad Jafari, Xiao Luo, Ali Jafari","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133280","url":null,"abstract":"Hashtag recommendation aims to suggest hashtags to users to annotate and describe the key information in the text, or categorize their posts. In recent years, several hashtag recommendation methods are proposed and developed to speed up processing of the texts and quickly find out the critical phrases. The methods use different approaches and techniques to obtain critical information from a large amount of data. This paper investigates the efficiency of unsupervised keyword extraction methods for hashtag recommendation. To do so, well-known unsupervised keyword extraction methods are applied to three real-world datasets including a new dataset containing texts of user-generated posts on a social learning platform. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that statistical methods performs newer methods including graph-based and embedding-based approaches in generating hashtags for long text, whereas the embedding-based approaches works better on generating hashtags for short texts. As a consequence, it can be concluded that unsupervised keyword extraction models can be adapted for hashtag recommendation when the social platform is new or there is no existing data to develop dedicated supervised learning models.","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131756641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting the Effectiveness of Blockchain Bug Bounty Programs","authors":"Ed Marcavage, Jake Mason, Chen Zhong","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133377","url":null,"abstract":"Bug bounty programs have proven to be an effective means for organizations to incentivize ethical hackers to report security vulnerabilities in their software. As the use of blockchain-based applications has grown, bug bounty programs have been established to identify vulnerabilities in these applications, such as smart contracts. However, bug bounty programs face unique challenges in encouraging ethical hackers. In this study, we collected data from about 200 bug bounty programs related to blockchain software from multiple bug bounty platforms. We analyzed the content of these programs and examined the involvement of ethical hackers, with the aim of examining the effectiveness of the current bug bounty programs for blockchain software. Additionally, we extracted various features from the content and format of the bug bounty programs and utilized them to construct a regression model that predicts the effectiveness of a program in drawing in ethical hackers. Our work is a fundamental step towards developing effective strategies for incentivizing ethical hackers in the blockchain domain.","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129975184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Artificial Intelligence regulations for trustworthiness","authors":"Hyesung Park, Hun-Yeong Kwon","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133301","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence emerged as a powerful technology using data in the 4th Industrial Revolution. As a result, artificial intelligence is currently being considered for use in many fields due to its efficiency and function. In this situation, to actively utilize artificial intelligence, society must accept artificial intelligence as a technology that can be used in the community. In other words, trustworthiness in artificial intelligence is needed within society. Currently, many countries are preparing various measures, such as policies and laws, to secure the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence. This paper analyzes acts or bills of artificial intelligence prepared in the country based on ensuring artificial intelligence trustworthiness. Through this, this paper tries to understand the characteristics of ways to secure the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence through acts for each country and to find the legal contents that can more effectively ensure trustworthiness.","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132439597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Vice, Natalie Ruiz-Sanchez, P. Douglas, G. Sukthankar
{"title":"Visual Episodic Memory-based Exploration","authors":"J. Vice, Natalie Ruiz-Sanchez, P. Douglas, G. Sukthankar","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133322","url":null,"abstract":"In humans, intrinsic motivation is an important mechanism for open-ended cognitive development; in robots, it has been shown to be valuable for exploration. An important aspect of human cognitive development is episodic memory which enables both the recollection of events from the past and the projection of subjective future. This paper explores the use of visual episodic memory as a source of intrinsic motivation for robotic exploration problems. Using a convolutional recurrent neural network autoencoder, the agent learns an efficient representation for spatiotemporal features such that accurate sequence prediction can only happen once spatiotemporal features have been learned. Structural similarity between ground truth and autoencoder generated images is used as an intrinsic motivation signal to guide exploration. Our proposed episodic memory model also implicitly accounts for the agent's actions, motivating the robot to seek new interactive experiences rather than just areas that are visually dissimilar. When guiding robotic exploration, our proposed method outperforms the Curiosity-driven Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) at finding dynamic anomalies.","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"304 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134123411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing Accuracy and Explainability of Recidivism Prediction Models","authors":"Tammy Babad, Soon Chun","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133382","url":null,"abstract":"Predicting recidivism is a challenging task, but it helps support courts in their decision-making process. Automated prediction models suffer from low accuracy and are associated with criticism for biased and unexplainable decision-making. In this poster, we present different machine-learning models with just a few selected features that achieve accuracies as good as models that use larger sets of features. In addition, we investigate the influencing features that contribute to recidivism prediction, which can enhance the explainability of the learned models. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"50 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113956483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mahdi Hadj Ali, Yann Le Biannic, Pierre-Henri Wuillemin
{"title":"Interpreting Predictive Models through Causality: A Query-Driven Methodology","authors":"Mahdi Hadj Ali, Yann Le Biannic, Pierre-Henri Wuillemin","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133387","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning algorithms have been widely adopted in recent years due to their efficiency and versatility across many fields. However, the complexity of predictive models has led to a lack of interpretability in automatic decision-making. Recent works have improved general interpretability by estimating the contributions of input features to the prediction of a pre-trained model. Despite these advancements, practitioners still seek to gain causal insights into the underlying data-generating mechanisms. To this end, some works have attempted to integrate causal knowledge into interpretability, as non-causal techniques can lead to paradoxical explanations. These efforts have provided answers to various queries, but relying on a single pre-trained model may result in quantification problems. In this paper, we argue that each causal query requires its own reasoning; thus, a single predictive model is not suited for all questions. Instead, we propose a new framework that prioritizes the query of interest and then derives a query-driven methodology accordingly to the structure of the causal model. It results in a tailored predictive model adapted to the query and an adapted interpretability technique. Specifically, it provides a numerical estimate of causal effects, which allows for accurate answers to explanatory questions when the causal structure is known.","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"225 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122061440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical Relevancy of Cancer-Related Tweets and Its Relation to Misinformation","authors":"Melanie McCord, Fahmida Hamid","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133364","url":null,"abstract":"Social media is one of the most dominant ways of spreading information. Still, unfortunately, these open platforms provide ways to spreading misinformation which can be extremely dangerous, especially when relevant to sensitive issues such as health-related information. Hence such platforms require an effective autonomous misinformation detection mechanism. Understanding the data is one of the necessary artifacts for building such a mechanism. In this work, we attempted to determine the medical relevancy of cancer-related tweets and explore whether they contain misinformation. We created a dataset of roughly 500 tweets and labeled them according to their medical relevance: medically relevant, not medically relevant, or unrelated to cancer. We ran logistic regression and support vector machine models on them. The highest proportion of correctly identified “medically relevant” tweets, i.e., accuracy, was 0.795. Our analysis hints at some features and factors that can automatically improve cancer-relevant and non-relevant tweet detection.","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130204302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Salido, A. Giret, Christian Pérez, Carlos March
{"title":"Rooster Colony Algorithm: A two-step Multi-Swarm Optimization Approach","authors":"M. Salido, A. Giret, Christian Pérez, Carlos March","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133368","url":null,"abstract":"Particle Swarm Optimization is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm inspired by the collective behavior of animal swarms where a set of candidate solutions, called particles, are randomly initialized in the search space, and their movements are iteratively updated based on their individual best solutions and the global best solution found by the swarm. This paper proposes a Multi-Swarm rooster colony algorithm (RCA) that considers a set of roosters, each owning a group of hens to compose a team. Each team (rooster and its hens) competes for the resource (food) with the other teams. From the combinatorial optimization point of view, each team analyzes part of the search space by an independent PSO algorithm with the same objective function. The RCA algorithm concurrently executes all PSO algorithms with different inertial weights for exploring different regions and the best solution (Gbest) of each team will compose the initial population for a new further centralized PSO algorithm that will exploit the previous solutions to search for the optimal one. Thus, the proposed RCA is composed of two steps, based on exploration and exploitation strategies to find an optimized solution in the search space. The results show that the proposed algorithm is competitive in solving well-known optimization functions. The objective is to apply this technique to solving real-life scheduling problems.","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127718904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matteo Francobaldi, A. D. Filippo, Andrea Borghesi, Nikola Pizurica, Igor Jovančević, Tim Llewellynn, Miguel de Prado
{"title":"TinderAI: Support System for Matching AI Algorithms and Embedded Devices","authors":"Matteo Francobaldi, A. D. Filippo, Andrea Borghesi, Nikola Pizurica, Igor Jovančević, Tim Llewellynn, Miguel de Prado","doi":"10.32473/flairs.36.133100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.36.133100","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important and pervasive in the modern world. The widespread adoption of AI algorithms is reflected in the extensive range of HW devices on which they can be deployed, from high-performance computing nodes to low-power embedded devices. Given the large set of heterogeneous resources where AI algorithms can be deployed, finding the most suitable device and its con- figuration is challenging, even for experts. \u0000We propose a data-driven approach to assist AI adopters and developers in choosing the optimal HW resource. Our approach is based on three key elements: i) fair benchmarking of target AI algorithms on a set of hetero- geneous platforms, ii) creation of ML models to learn the behaviour of these AI algorithms, and iii) support guidelines to help identify the best deployment option for a given AI algorithm. We demonstrate our approach on a specific (and relevant) use case: Deep Neural Net- work (DNN) inference on embedded devices. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":302103,"journal":{"name":"The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117045332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}