[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Section” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.43)” background_image=”https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/aamas2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pfo_aphrodites_rock_1112_02_ps_.jpg” background_size=”stretch” background_position=”bottom_left” background_blend=”overlay” min_height=”290px” custom_margin=”||-2px|||” custom_padding=”98px||0px|||” bottom_divider_style=”curve2″ bottom_divider_color=”#FFFFFF” bottom_divider_height=”80px” bottom_divider_repeat=”1x” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” box_shadow_style=”preset6″ global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_enable_color=”off” custom_margin=”-30px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][dsm_text_divider header=”KEYNOTE SPEAKERS” color=”#FFFFFF” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h1″ header_font=”|600|||||||” header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”40px” background_enable_color=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/dsm_text_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Joanna Bryson” url=”#joanna-bryson” image=”https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/aamas2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/keynote-speakers_250x250-03.png” icon_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Professor of Ethics and Technology
Hertie School, Berlin
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University of Bristol<\/p>\n
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University of Oxford
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Professor of Ethics and Technology<\/em> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Limits of Artificial Agency<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Decades ago, Pattie Maes (perhaps among others1) first argued for the use the word \u2018agent\u2019 to describe both animals and \u2018animats\u2019<\/p>\n \u2014 that is, to easily express the unified concerns of artificial and natural intelligence. Now those of us with experience in building agentic systems seem only able to gape in horror as ordinary users blithely give password and credit card control to systems no one has validated.<\/p>\n What are the limits of the agency we can attribute to AI? Are humans really no more than \u2018stochastic parrots\u2019, and do AI systems even rise to that level? What does it mean to be collaborator? What does it take to establish trust? How do we stop people from being stupid or evil about AI?<\/p>\n In this talk, I lay out the ontology for understanding what qual- ifies for not only agency, but legal and moral agency. I describe how trust is built in a community, and collaboration built between partners. I also touch on the massive legislative effort the European Union has made to ensure that AI is deployed in ways that do not destabilise our world.<\/p>\n I do this all in about thirty minutes, so we can have plenty of time for the discussion and debate that builds our society, and gives us collective agency.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Joanna J Bryson has been Professor of Ethics and Technology at Hertie School, Berlin since February 2020. She is globally recognised for expertise in intelligence broadly, including AI policy and impacts. Her original academic focus was behavioural ecology, using AI for scientific simulations of intelligence. During her PhD on systems engineering of AI, she observed the confusion generated by anthropomorphised AI, leading to her first ethics publication “Just Another Artifact\u201d in 1998. In 2010 her work in AI ethics was first recognised by a policy body when she was invited to participate in the UK research councils\u2019 Robot Ethics retreat, where she coauthored the UK\u2019s (EPSRC\/AHRC) \u201cPrinciples of Robotics,\u201d the world\u2019s first national-level AI ethics soft policy. Her present research focus is the impact of intelligent technology on economies, security, and human cooperation. She also studies transparency for and through AI systems, technological impacts on power, interference in democratic regulation, the future of labour, redistribution, and digital governance more broadly. She consults frequently on policy and science including to government entities in Germany, the UK, the EU (EP\/EC), US, Singapore, Switzerland, and Canada; transnational organisations including Unesco, the UN, OSCE, OECD, CoE, EuroMed; NGOs such as the Red Cross, Chatham House, IEEE, WEF. In 2020, Germany nominated her to the Global Partnership of AI, where she chaired an AI Governance committee.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Section” module_id=”sabine-hauert” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” da_popup_slug=”sabine-hauert” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/aamas2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/keynote-speakers_250x250-01.png” title_text=”keynote-speakers_250x250-01″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” border_radii=”on|200px|200px|200px|200px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Professor of Swarm Engineering<\/em> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Designing Trustworthy Robot Swarms for Real-World Applications<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Building on two decades of progress, swarm robotics is approaching the point where it can deliver out-of-the-box solutions for real-world environments that are adaptive, scalable, and robust.<\/p>\n Realising this potential requires moving beyond the traditional view of swarms as large collectives of simple, autonomous, and homogeneous agents that rely solely on local sensing and interactions.<\/p>\n Instead, we argue for a new paradigm in which swarms leverage advances in AI, integrate richer local perception, and exchange information not only locally but also through global or quasi-global communication.<\/p>\n \u00a0In this vision, swarms of specialised robots operate with shared situational awareness, enabling them to coexist and coordinate seamlessly across a wide range of applications, including medicine, construction, agriculture, logistics, and environmental protection.<\/p>\n \u00a0Underpinning this vision is the need to co-design swarm systems with communities and stakeholders, ensuring they are ethical, trustworthy, and safe. This includes developing systematic approaches to engineer emergent behaviours that are transparent and amenable to human design, monitoring, control, and validation.<\/p>\n The long-term goal is to foster an ecosystem in which next-generation robots collaborate with one another – and with humans – at scale.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
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