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Keynote Lecture

Machines That Know What Matters: Engineering Awareness of Social Values

Carles Sierra
IIIA-CSIC
Spain

Brief Bio

Carles Sierra is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona. He served as President of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) from 2020 to 2024. Since 1985, he has made significant contributions to AI in areas such as Knowledge Representation, Auctions, Electronic Institutions, Autonomous Agents, and Multiagent Systems. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS). In 2019, he was awarded the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field.

Abstract
Ethics in AI raises big questions about how we design and use autonomous systems responsibly. In this talk, I’ll focus on one core challenge: how to engineer moral values into intelligent agents. We’ll explore how human communities define social values, how these become norm-based social contracts, and how we can build computational models that make machines aware of them.