The ICRES conference series provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussing the fundamental and pressing safety, ethical, legal, and societal issues in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and the scope is not limited to physical robots. We invite full papers, extended abstracts and posters.

A non-exhaustive list of topics and activities is:

Accountability in autonomous systems
AI technology to block unethical/mendacious social-media communication
Autonomy and liability
Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems
Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
Ethical frameworks: universal or region-specific?
Ethical principles in robotics
Ethics and standardization
Formal and mathematical frameworks for robot ethics
Implementations and engineering studies
Political and legal frameworks
Privacy & management of personal data
Raising ethical awareness among stakeholders
The role of industry and society in the definition of safety standards
Transparency in autonomous systems
User and HCI/HRI studies at the intersection of the above issues
Special Sessions, workshops and tutorials