Technical Committee

Ethical, Legal, Social, Environmental and Human Dimensions of AI/CI (SHIELD)

Chair: Keeley Crockett, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (K.Crockett@mmu.ac.uk)

Vice Chairs:

Albert YS Lam, Hong Kong

Matthew Garratt, Australia

IEEE / IEEE CIS Members:

1. Hussein Abbas, Australia

2. Chuan-Kang Ting, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

3. Bing Xue, New Zealand

4. Annabel Latham, MMU, United Kingdom

5. Nelishia Pillay, South Africa

6. Jim Torresen, Univeristy of Oslo

7. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Univeristy of Waterloo.

8. Catherine Huang, Google, USA

9. Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA

10. John Sheppard, Montana State University, USA

11. Hava Siegelmann, University of Massachusetts, USA

12. Rajesh Murthy (GAPASK Inc.), Canada

13. Andreas Nuernberger (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg), Germany

14. Francesco Flammini (Mälardalen University), Sweden

15. Marcello Ienca (EPFL CDH-DIR), Switzerland

16. Naeemeh Adel, United Kingdom

17. Alessandro Facchini (AI Labs IDSIA), Switzerland

18. Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, France

19. Christian Wagner, Nottingham Univeristy, UK

20. Marley Vellasco, Brazil

21. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, USA

Goals

SHIELD has five main goals:

(1) To create a vibrant environment within IEEE CIS to innovate, implement and evaluate the ethical, social, legal, economic, cultural, environmental, and human dimensions of AI/CI on society.

(2) To examine how trust in CI/AI can be achieved through stakeholder engagement and co-production in research and innovation.

(3) To continually review (and provide opinion on) current and emerging global legalisation and standards in the field of AI and data driven technologies

(4) To promote and organise technical activities (special sessions, panel discussions, special issues, workshops, etc) on the ethical, social, legal, economic, environmental, and human dimensions of CI/AI technologies

(5) To instigate change in the professional practice of researchers through consequence scanning practices and the embedding of ethical practices as a norm.

SHIELD will focus on proposing technical /practical solutions to assess the impact of CI/AI across the dimensions of ethical, social, legal, economic, cultural, environmental, and human, amongst others. This work will be interdisciplinary in nature, cultivating additional experts in CI/AI, social science, phycology, law, ethicist, communications, environmental science, education, business, and engineering.

Governance

Under the supervision and the coordination of the IEEE CIS Technical Activities Committee, Ethical, Legal, Social, Environmental and Human Dimensions of AI/CI (SHIELD) is established to create a vibrant environment within the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) to provide a platform to bring together the many dimensions (not limited to ethical, social, legal, economic, cultural, environmental, and human) which are required to research, innovate, develop and deploy responsible and trustworthy CI/AI for humanity.

Meetings

Meetings will be called by the Chair once or twice a year, usually in conjunction with the CIS AdCom meetings or as requested by the DMTC members. Sufficient advance notice of the meetings will be given to the members, as well as to other interested parties. The Chair shall prepare an agenda before the meeting and shall prepare minutes for distribution after the meeting.