Beyond Compliance: Forum on Digital Ethics in Research October 17/18, 2022
Institut Imagine, Paris and online
Researchers in digital sciences face tough ethical questions in their daily activity for which there aren’t yet consensual answers among the research community. The forum “Beyond Compliance” aims at advancing the discussion about those issues. The target audience is composed by researchers and Research Ethics Boards. The event consists of keynotes, presentations, tutorials and interactive sessions, and provides ample time for open discussions. Different outcomes are envisioned, including some which may be directed towards policy makers. (Abstract)
Program
Day 1: Monday, October 17th
09:15-09:30
Welcome words
09:30-10:30
Keynote
Raja Chatila (Sorbonne University, CNPEN)
Responsible development use and governance of AI
10:45-12:30
Session 1 – Research ethics in a cross-disciplinary and global setting
Philip Brey (University of Twente)
Research ethics guidelines for the computer and information sciences
Bernd Stahl (De Montfort University)
Realising ethics and responsible innovation in a large neuroinformatics project
Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University)
New digital research possibilities/Old ethical forms
14:15-16:00
Session 2 – Research ethics review
Dirk Lanzerath (University of Bonn)
Ethics reviews in modern research: learning from medical RECs
Jeroen van der Ham (University of Twente)
Beyond “human subject”: the challenges of ethics oversight in digital science
Casey Fiesler (University of Colorado Boulder)
Data is people: research ethics and the limits of human subjects review
16:15-18:00
Session 3 – Research ethics in the era of big data and AI
Michael Bernstein (Stanford University)
Ethics and society review: ethics reflection as a precondition to research funding
Inioluwa Deborah Raji (Mozilla Foundation)
Research accountability in machine learning
Rowena Rodrigues (Trilateral Research)
Looking back, moving forward: AI research ethics
Day 2: Tuesday, October 18th
09:00-10:30
Session 4 – Tutorial on research ethics for PhD students and young researchers
Catherine Tessier (Onera, CNPEN)
Alice: Hi Ben! You know what? I enrolled on a new PhD program at Hereafter University. They offered generous grants for machine learning students to design chatbots replicating the speech of deceased individuals and even generating new phrases that the person has never uttered in their lifetime. How does your own PhD go? Still with bees?
10:45-12:30
Session 5 – Research ethics training
Catherine Tessier (Onera, CNPEN)
Research ethics training: debating is learning
Karën Fort (Sorbonne University)
Teaching ethics in NLP: DIY (do it yourself)
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Chalmers University)
Research-based perspective in teaching ethics to engineering students
14:15-16:00
Session 6 – New challenges and opportunities for research ethics
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye (Imperial College London)
The search for anonymous data – From de-identification to privacy-preserving systems
Sylvie Delacroix (University of Birmingham)
Data Trusts and the need for bottom-up data empowerment infrastructure
Panagiotis Kavouras (National Technical University of Athens)
Open science: hopes, challenges and the intervention of ROSiE project
16:15-17:00
Closing remarks
Location
Institut Imagine
24 Boulevard du Montparnasse
75015 Paris
France
To facilitate getting accommodation during the forum, we list some hotels near the venue:
- Hotel Korner Montparnasse
- Best Western Hotel Le Montparnasse
- l’hôtel La Parizienne
- Hotel Le Littré
- Hôtel Louison Rive Gauche
- Pullman Paris Montparnasse
If you are interested to participate or if you would like to receive more information, please contact the organisers at beyondcompliance@ercim.eu
Organization committee: ERCIM Ethics Working Group
- Claude Kirchner (INRIA, CNPEN)
- Sylvain Petitjean (INRIA)
- Andreas Rauber (SBA)
- Christos Alexakos (ISI)
- Fabian Eberle (SBA)
- Gabriel David (INESC)
- Guenter Koch (HCM)
- Pablo Cesar (CWI)
- Vera Sarkol (CWI)
ERCIM is a consortium of leading European research institutions committed to information technology and applied mathematics.