Alan Winfield's Web Log

Just spent an exciting two days at the first 'all hands meeting' of our new EPSRC funded project: Autonomous Robot Evolution (ARE): ...

Since setting out my initial thoughts on robots with simulation-based internal models about 5 years ago - initially in the context of ethica...

Followers of this blog will know that I have been working for some years on simulation-based internal models - demonstrating their potentia...

A few weeks ago we had the kick-off meeting, in York, of our new 4 year EPSRC funded project  Autonomous Robot Evolution (ARE): cradle to gr...

Here are the slides from my York Festival of Ideas keynote yesterday, which introduced the festival focus day  Artificial Intelligence: Pro...

Readers of this blog will know that I've become very excited by the potential of robots with simulation-based internal models in recent...

The imitation of goals is an extremely important form of social learning in humans. This is reflected in the early emergence of imitation in...

This week my colleague Dieter Vanderelst presented our paper: The Dark Side of Ethical Robots at AIES 2018  in New Orleans. I blogged ab...

These days I often find myself talking about ethical governance. Not just talking about but advocating: for instance in written evidence  t...

This blogpost is a round up of the various sets of ethical principles of robotics and AI that have been proposed to date, ordered by date of...

Here are the slides for my Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) lecture last night in Westminster, on robot ethics a...

It has now been a couple of weeks since the ERL Emergency robotics competition in Piombino, Italy, so I've had time to wind down and ref...

Last month we presented our paper The Case for an Ethical Black Box at Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2017) , University of Surr...