Dear Ganiat & Katherine, I must say Ganiat, that your hotlink suggestion ended up in a fog. It led to a place called nowhere. I could not see the logic in the posting itself nor in the content of the web page you selected for my enlightenment. My posited question to you, was an elementary one fit for first year undergraduate students of Philosophy in Sweden, Nederland the US and in GB. You failed to even begin to answer it. Honorary Fellow Department of Humanities University of Leicester International Society for Environmental Information Sciences Computer Society of Kenya Bloggers Association of Kenya Swedish Association for Philosophy & Psychiatry IT History Society of America Computer Arts Society(UK) American Society for Neuroradiology Israeli Society for Parasitology African Society for Computational Biology Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 12:20 PM From: "Ganiat.Kazeem" <ganiat.kazeem@open.ac.uk> To: "William Fearon" <william.fearon@mail.com> Cc: "Katherine Harrison" <katherine.harrison@gmail.com>, "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] 3 doctoral positions: caring robots The answer to that is probably going to be Here: [1]https://liu.se/en/research/caring-robots Miss Ganiat Omolara Kazeem | PhD researcher at the Open University, Critical Information Studies research group [CIS], Department of computing and communications, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics [STEM] & The OU Centre for Policing Research and Learning [CPRL] The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA [2]ganiat.kazeem@open.ac.uk | ORCID iD [3]0000-0002-4312-3022 +44 (0) 1908659175 Internal Ext 59175 Mobile: 07984134851 Twitter: @ganikazeem Member: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , British computer society (BCS) and British Society for Criminology (BSC) [4]Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break. [5]Bill James — Quoted in Gray, Scott (2006). The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball. New York: Doubleday. pp. 191. ISBN 0-385-51464-6. On 11 Dec 2019, at 11:29, William Fearon <william.fearon@mail.com> wrote: What is an 'ethical reason?'. Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 8:06 PM From: "Katherine Harrison" <katherine.harrison@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] 3 doctoral positions: caring robots We are currently accepting applications to 3 fully funded, 4 year PhD positions associated with the research project, ‘The ethics and social consequences of AI and caring robots. Learning trust, empathy and accountability’. (deadline 30 January 2020, start date August 2020). The project is led by Ericka Johnson and Katherine Harrison at Tema Genus, Linköping University, Sweden. More information can be found: [1][6]https://liu.se/en/research/caring-robots The PhD positions are fully funded (i.e. provide full-employment within the Swedish system, including paid holidays and other standard social benefits, etc.) and can be extended up to a fifth year by teaching opportunities if applicable. Position 1: Designing care robots What bodies are assumed in the design of companion robots, and how does the design of the robot affect its interactions with humans? This project focuses on how care and affect are materialised in the body of the companion robot, with particular critical attention to intersections of gender, ethnicity and ability. An additional area of inquiry could examine how the material design features of the robot's body are mediated through affective programming software to produce a more intimate encounter. Position 2: Learning data for companion robots. How can robots learn to care when collecting data on relevant humans may be limited for ethical reasons? Or if real data contain bias, on which data should you train your data? Generative machine learning techniques (such as generative adversarial networks (GANs)) offer a solution to problems with “real” data such as scarce availability, labour intensity of data labelling, data biases, or privacy intrusiveness. This project comprises a critical inquiry into the production/collection of data sets used to help companion robots learn, and particularly the possibility of using GANs to assist with this. Position 3: The affective space between human and companion robots Current advances in robotics often focuses on refining robots to learn about and respond better to humans. However, interacting well with a robot also requires significant learning on the part of the human participant. This project focuses on the affective space between human and robot, and the work that both participants must learn to do to create an emotional relation characterised by care and trust. Interested? Please contact us with any questions (Ericka Johnson < ericka.johnson@liu.se> and Katherine Harrison <katherine.harrison@liu.se>) Applications are made through the Linköping University web interface: [2][7]https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=12652& rmlan g=UK _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [3][8]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [4][9]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [5][10]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. [11]https://liu.se/en/research/caring-robots 2. [12]https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=12652&rmla ng=UK 3. [13]http://aoir.org/ 4. 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