Responsible Autonomy

As intelligent systems are increasingly making decisions that directly affect society, perhaps the most important upcoming research direction in AI is to rethink the ethical implications of their actions. Means are needed to integrate moral, societal and legal values with technological developments in AI, both during the design process as well as part of the deliberation algorithms employed by these systems. In this paper, we describe leading ethics theories and propose alternative ways to ensure ethical behavior by artificial systems. Given that ethics are dependent on the socio-cultural context and are often only implicit in deliberation processes, methodologies are needed to elicit the values held by designers and stakeholders, and to make these explicit leading to better understanding and trust on artificial autonomous systems.Comment: IJCAI2017 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Espectáculo informativo en noticies de sociedad: el caso de Madeleine McCann

For the definition of the news spectacle, the authors have designed a quantitative and qualitative methodology which permits the application of a series of theoretical instruments to any television news report to determine if this news has been turned into spectacle or not. Field work was carried out on the specific story of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, elaborating a theoretical corpus and using a series of tools of analysis to arrive at the conclusion that, in this specific case, elements of spectacle have been used in the news and elements of news in entertainment as a strategy of television programming, both daily and otherwise, in the television channels’ fight for audience. KEY WORDS: spectacle; news; television; childhood. PALABRAS CLAVE: espectáculo; información; televisión; infancia

Star Formation from Spitzer (Lyman) to Spitzer (Space Telescope) and Beyond

A summary of JENAM 2008 Symposium 9 "Star Formation from Spitzer (Lyman) to Spitzer (Space Telescope) and Beyond", held in Vienna, 10-12 September 2008.Comment: 6 page