ACSOS2024

From the 16th-20th of September, members of the Trustworthy AI Lab attended the 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS2024).

On Thursday, Dr Lewis was joined on the Expert Panel by Dr Amanda Muller, Chief of Responsible Technology at Northrop Grumman, and Dr Jeremy Pitt, Professor of Intelligent and Self-Organising Systems at Imperial College London, to discuss ‘Building trust in self* systems’. Trust had been a theme running through the conference, and this Expert Panel explored the theory and practice of trust and trustworthiness, between humans and machines, and between machines. A key theme being `trust calibration’, how to empower people to make well-informed judgements about the trustworthiness or otherwise of complex Ai and other socio-technical systems.

On Friday, the Sustainable Foraging problem (introduced at ACSOS2023 by alumni Dr Aishwaryaprajna and Peter), was discussed in its use to evaluate agents who learn the impact of their actions within a single lifetime.

Finally, Dr Lewis presented work on how we might go about developing sustainable and scalable human systems through socio-technical systems. In this vein the talsk explored how we may design technology to support and empower communities, to enable individuals to build social capital and social cohesion, from which, they may be better poised to tackle collective problems, like food insecurity.