AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
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The AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) is a peer-reviewed academic conference series focused on societal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence. The conference is jointly organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, namely the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and "is designed to shift the dynamics of the conversation on AI and ethics to concrete actions that scientists, businesses and society alike can take to ensure this promising technology is ushered into the world responsibility." The conference community includes lawyers, practitioners, and academics in computer science, philosophy, public policy, economics, human-computer interaction, and more. Its papers are regularly cited highlighting ethical issues with AI technologies, including automation, democracy, policy, power, or bias.
As of 2025, the conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation as well as various large technology companies including Google, Lenovo, and IBM Research. In recent years, sponsors include Sony, eBay, Salesforce, DeepMind, Meta and others.
List of conferences
Past AIES conferences include:
| Year | Location | Date | Keynote/Invited speakers | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Madrid, Spain | October 20–22 | Ted Lechterman, Maria Eriksson, David Leslie, Urs Gasser, Miriam Fernandez, Emanuelle Burton, Shannon Vallor, Julienne LaChance, Samer Hassan, Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem | |
| 2024 | Santa Clara, California | October 21–23 | Diyi Yang, Emanuelle Burton, Casey Fiesler, Amy J. Ko, Amanda McCroskery, Marty J. Wolf, David Danks, danah boyd | |
| 2023 | Montreal, Canada | August 8–10 | Annette Zimmermann, Jamie Morgenstern, Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Kate Larson, Gary Marchant, Roxana Daneshjou, Atoosa Kasirzadeh | |
| 2022 | Oxford, England | August 1–3 | Deb Raji, Ronald Arkin, Shannon Vallor, Abeba Birhane, Bertram Malle, Karen Levy | |
| 2021 | Virtual | May 19–21 | Ifeoma Ajunwa, Timnit Gebru, Arvind Narayanan | |
| 2020 | New York, New York | February 6–8 | Peter Dabrock, Anita Gurumurthy, Charlton McIlwain, Gina Neff, Frank Pasquale | |
| 2019 | Honolulu, Hawaii | January 27–28 | Ryan Calo, Susan Athey, Anca Dragan, David Danks | |
| 2018 | New Orleans, Louisiana | February 1–3 | Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad, Carol Rose, Richard Freeman, Patrick Lin, Tenzin Priyadarshi |
See also
- Ethics of artificial intelligence
- Philosophy of artificial intelligence
- Regulation of artificial intelligence