What moral skills should machines have in order to interact with us day-to-day (luckily the trolley problem don't happen often)? Our #icwsm2022 paper discovers a few surprising facts of commonplace moral difficulties. See thread👇

Out with trolley problems, in with Reddit arxiv.org/abs/2203.16762 HMI researchers studied 100,000 posts from /r/AmITheAsshole to understand everyday moral dilemmas #icwsm2022 ICWSM Josh Nguyen Minjeong Shin Alasdair Tran, Georgie Lyall, Nicholas Carroll, lei lexing xie

The author team includes Minjeong Shin, Joohee Kim, Yunha Han, lexing xie, @mtchl, Bum Chul Kwon | 권범철 | @[email protected], Sungahn Ko, and I (apologies for any Twitter handles I missed), and the paper is currently available as a TVCG preprint here: computer.org/csdl/journal/t… 4/

Algorithm charts moral culture in 100k dilemmas 🔗cecs.anu.edu.au/news/100k-dile… ANU School of Computing teams up w/ @ANU_Philosophy to analyse 100k Reddit, Inc. threads debating moral dilemmas, a step toward endowing #AI w/ moral reasoning ability. Josh Nguyen lexing xie lei Jenny Davis

We invite research contributions to the Web and Society Track at #TheWebConf 2023. URL: www2023.thewebconf.org/calls/research… You can reach the track chairs Juhi Kulshrestha, Yelena Mejova, lexing xie at: [email protected]

Look forward to talking at ISAAC about temporal data, including: models for events in continuous time, connecting back to discrete time+space, machine learning tools for temporal processes, and a range of applications. Slides and references are here drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

💡Want to present your amazing research at a cool conference and in a fantastic location? 🚨Don't miss the last deadline for ICWSM 2023 (Cyprus in June 2023). Still one month left (January 15, 23:59 AoE). 🌞Looking forward to your amazing papers and welcoming you all to Cyprus!