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Best Regards, Ishtiaque

== Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Faculty Fellow, Schwartz Reisman Institute https://www.torontosri.ca/ The University of Toronto Program Committee Chair, ICTD 2022 https://ictd.org/ictd2022/

Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 5262 Saint George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada Ph: +1 647 220 3482 web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FToronto ==

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Olivia DiGiuseppe olivia.digiuseppe@utoronto.ca Date: Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 11:39 AM Subject: Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2021—Human and Machine Normativity: New Connections To: Avi Goldfarb Avi.Goldfarb@rotman.utoronto.ca, ai_engineering@vectorinstitute.ai ai_engineering@vectorinstitute.ai, Aida Ramezani armzn@cs.toronto.edu, Anita McGahan < Anita.McGahan@rotman.utoronto.ca>, Anna Su anna.su@utoronto.ca, ashton@cs.toronto.edu ashton@cs.toronto.edu, Asmita Bhutani Vij < asmita.bhutani@mail.utoronto.ca>, Avery Slater avery.slater@utoronto.ca, Beatrice Magistro beatrice.magistro@utoronto.ca, Bo Wang < bowang.wang@utoronto.ca>, Boris Babic boris.babic@utoronto.ca, Brian Smith brian.cantwell.smith@utoronto.ca, Carmen Logie < carmen.logie@utoronto.ca>, Computer Science Chair chair.cs@utoronto.ca, Charlotte Leferink charlotte.leferink@mail.utoronto.ca, cmaddis@cs.toronto.edu cmaddis@cs.toronto.edu, Daniel Browne < dan.browne@utoronto.ca>, Daniel Konikoff daniel.konikoff@mail.utoronto.ca, Daniel Wilson daniel.j.wilson@gmail.com, David Lie david.lie@utoronto.ca, David Madras (madras@cs.toronto.edu) madras@cs.toronto.edu, Davide Gentile d.gentile@mail.utoronto.ca, Dawn Bloomfield < dawn.bloomfield@utoronto.ca>, Denis Walsh denis.walsh@utoronto.ca, duvenaud@cs.toronto.edu duvenaud@cs.toronto.edu, Elliot Creager < creager@cs.toronto.edu>, Evi Micha (emicha@cs.toronto.edu) < emicha@cs.toronto.edu>, Fatima Ahmed fatimak.ahmed@utoronto.ca, frank@vectorinstitute.ai frank@vectorinstitute.ai, Gillian Hadfield < g.hadfield@utoronto.ca>, ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu, Jackelyn Ho jackelyn.ho@utoronto.ca, Jason Plaks jason.plaks@utoronto.ca, Jennifer Gibson jennifer.gibson@utoronto.ca, Jennifer Nagel < jennifer.nagel@utoronto.ca>, Jessie Hall jessie.hall@mail.utoronto.ca, Jia Xue jia.xue@utoronto.ca, Jillian Macklin < jillian.macklin@mail.utoronto.ca>, John Enman-Beech < j.enmanbeech@mail.utoronto.ca>, Jonathan Kelly ( jonathan.kelly@robotics.utias.utoronto.ca) < jonathan.kelly@robotics.utias.utoronto.ca>, Julian Posada < julian.posada@mail.utoronto.ca>, Karina Vold karina.vold@utoronto.ca, Kelly Lyons kelly.lyons@utoronto.ca, Kristen Bos kristen.bos@utoronto.ca, Kristina McElheran k.mcelheran@utoronto.ca, Laura Rosella < laura.rosella@utoronto.ca>, Laura Derksen Laura.Derksen@rotman.utoronto.ca, Leslie Shade leslie.shade@utoronto.ca, Lief Pagalan < lief.pagalan@utoronto.ca>, Lillio Mok lillio@cs.toronto.edu, Lisa Austin < lisa.austin@utoronto.ca>, Maayan Shvo (maayanshvo@cs.toronto.edu) < maayanshvo@cs.toronto.edu>, Marlene Koffi marlene.koffi@utoronto.ca, Matt Ratto matt.ratto@utoronto.ca, Matthew Marinett < matthew.marinett@mail.utoronto.ca>, Meena Andiappan < meena.andiappan@utoronto.ca>, mghassem@mit.edu mghassem@mit.edu, Michael Inzlicht Michael.Inzlicht@rotman.utoronto.ca, Michelle Alexopoulos < m.alexopoulos@utoronto.ca>, Mohammad Yaghini < mohammad.yaghini@mail.utoronto.ca>, Morgan MacInnes < m.macinnes@mail.utoronto.ca>, Nicola Lacetera nicola.lacetera@utoronto.ca, Nicolas Papernot nicolas.papernot@utoronto.ca, Nisarg Shah < nisarg@cs.toronto.edu>, Noam Kolt noam.kolt@mail.utoronto.ca, Olivia DiGiuseppe olivia.digiuseppe@utoronto.ca, Peter Loewen < peter.loewen@utoronto.ca>, phildawson23@gmail.com phildawson23@gmail.com, Rawan Abulibdeh rabulibd@uoguelph.ca, Reid McIlroy-Young < reidmcy@cs.toronto.edu>, rgrosse@cs.toronto.edu rgrosse@cs.toronto.edu, Rhonda McEwen rhonda.mcewen@utoronto.ca, Rohan Alexander < rohan.alexander@utoronto.ca>, Roman Andres Zarate Vasquez < ra.zarate@utoronto.ca>, Rosalie Wang rosalie.wang@utoronto.ca, Sasho Nikolov anikolov@cs.toronto.edu, Shabnam Haghzare < shabnam.haghzare@mail.utoronto.ca>, Shashank Motepalli < shashank.motepalli@mail.utoronto.ca>, sheila@cs.toronto.edu < sheila@cs.toronto.edu>, Shion Guha shion.guha@utoronto.ca, Shreyas Sekar < shreyas.sekar@rotman.utoronto.ca>, Sienna DiGiuseppe < sienna.digiuseppe@utoronto.ca>, Suzanne van Geuns < scm.vangeuns@mail.utoronto.ca>, suzanne@cs.toronto.edu < suzanne@cs.toronto.edu>, Tegan Rajkumar-Maharaj tegan.maharaj@utoronto.ca, Tero Karppi tero.karppi@utoronto.ca, Toniann Pitassi < toniann.pitassi@utoronto.ca>, Vardan Papyan vardan.papyan@utoronto.ca, Venkat Bhat venkat.bhat@utoronto.ca, Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello < victoria.mello@mail.utoronto.ca>, Vinyas Harish v.harish@mail.utoronto.ca, Wendy Wong wendyh.wong@utoronto.ca, Yang Liu yangliu.liu@mail.utoronto.ca, zemelr94@gmail.com zemelr94@gmail.com

Hello SRI Community!

Below, you’ll find an email that you can forward to any of your connections or networks, whether personal or professional, in order to spread the word about our conference.

Additionally, I suggest you add a line to your email signature linking to the conference—in all outgoing communications, not just for this one. You can either copy the image in my signature below or copy this text: *Absolutely Interdisciplinary* http://www.absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com

and add it below your own email signature.

Depending on your circles and/or your areas of expertise, you may wish to share this with any professional associations, forums, reading or working groups, listservs, or other organizations or collectives you are involved with, as well as individual contacts who you think may be interested in the conference subject matter. *Please copy me on outgoing emails *(so I can track who’s connected to what organization, and so I know where the message is going).

Thanks in advance for your help in spreading the word. Please let me know if anything’s not clear here, or if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Liv

*Olivia DiGiuseppe *| Project Coordinator *Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society* https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto *olivia.digiuseppe@utoronto.ca* olivia.digiuseppe@utoronto.ca http://www.absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/ *__________________________________*

*Email to forward is below:*

http://www.absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/

Good afternoon,

I hope this finds you well. I am reaching out to confirm that the Schwartz Reisman Institute’s inaugural conference, *Absolutely Interdisciplinary* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/, will take place virtually from *November 5-6**th**, 2021*. Below you will find all conference details and links to more information.

*About Absolutely Interdisciplinary* Understanding the capacities and limitations of complex new technologies like AI calls for more than just a technical perspective. *Absolutely Interdisciplinary* will convene researchers from across disciplines to build new, interdisciplinary approaches to advance our understanding of how to meet the challenge of ensuring AI and other powerful technologies promote human well-being. This year, *Absolutely Interdisciplinary* takes place virtually, with a one-day graduate workshop on *November 4**th**,* followed by four scheduled sessions across two days on *November* *5**th** and **6* *th**. **Visit the conference website for more information* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/ and *register here.* https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/absolutely-interdisciplinary-tickets-178259307387

*About this year’s theme* Humans are a fundamentally normative species, with complex cognitive and social systems for shaping behaviour to implement collectively-determined values and norms in support of cooperation. Building AI systems that are robustly aligned with human values requires deep understandings of how these normative systems work. At the same time, advances in AI present unique opportunities to investigate and test what capacities contribute to our ability to build, maintain, and abide by norms. This year, *Absolutely Interdisciplinary* takes up the challenge of exploring these dynamics under the theme *Human and Machine Normativity: New Connections.* *Learn more here.* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/aboutaixai *Speakers* *Jeff Clune* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers, *Vincent Conitzer* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers, *Deborah Gordon* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers, *Mortiz Hardt* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers, *Joel Z. Leibo* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers, *Sarah Mathew* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers, *Deirdre Mulligan* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers, *Johanna Thoma* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers, and *Gillian K. Hadfield* https://absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com/speakers.

*Registration and information*

- *Register for the conference at this link.* https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/absolutely-interdisciplinary-tickets-178259307387

- Follow SRI on *Twitter* https://twitter.com/TorontoSRI and *LinkedIn* https://www.linkedin.com/company/53504040/ for conference updates. - Share the conference announcement via *this Tweet* https://twitter.com/TorontoSRI/status/1380192577631174665

*Questions?* Email *hello@torontosri.ca* hello@torontosri.ca