[CogSci] CFP - Workshop on Formal Ethical Agents and Robots

[Vivek Nallur]

2nd Workshop on Formal Ethical Agents and Robots
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Website: https://fearworkshop.github.io
Submission Website: https://openreview.net/group?id=FEAR/2025/Workshop

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to a range of concerns
about the ethical impact of the technology. This includes concerns about
the day-to-day behaviour of robotic systems that will interact with humans
in workplaces, homes and hospitals. One of the themes of these concerns is
the need for such systems to take ethics into account when reasoning. This
has generated new interest in how we can specify, implement and validate
ethical reasoning. The aim of this workshop will be to look at formal
approaches to these questions.

This free workshop will be held, stand-alone, on the 4th November 2025 at
the University of Manchester, UK.  We intend to run a tutorial on Machine
Ethics on the 3rd November, the details of which are still being finalised.

We welcome submissions on:

* Logics for morality and ethics
* Knowledge representation of ethical theories and ethically salient
information
* Computational modelling of morality and ethics
* Specification of ethical reasoning and behaviour
* Verification of ethical reasoning and behaviour
* Formal modelling of ethical accountability

Submission Information:

We will accept three types of paper prepared using the EPTCS LaTeX style.

1. Regular papers describing completed research (up to 16 pages in length).
2. Short papers describing work-in-progress or directions for future work
(up to 8 pages in length).
3. Abstracts providing a high-level description of some research published
(or submitted/intended for publication) elsewhere (up to 2 pages in length).

Papers should be submitted using OpenReview (
https://openreview.net/group?id=FEAR/2025/Workshop ).  The paper type
should be included as part of the paper title.  Reviews will be
single-blind.  Please note that OpenReview can take up to two weeks to
approve a new profile registration that does not contain an institution
email address.

We intend to host informal workshop proceedings on OpenReview.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: Thursday 7th August, 11:59 UTC-0
Notification: Thursday 11th September
Workshop: 4th November 2025

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I understand that my working hours may not coincide with yours. Please do
not feel obliged to respond until your normal working hours.
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Dr. Vivek Nallur
Assistant Professor
Phone +353 (1)716 2475
Computer Science, Room B2.03
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin - 4,
Ireland
Co-PI (with Graham Finlay) IRC COALESCE Grant COTHROM (Computing Thoughtful
Rules for Migrants)
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