AAAI-24 will feature a special track on Safe, Robust and Responsible Artificial Intelligence (SRRAI). This special track focuses on the theory and practice of safety and robustness in AI-based systems and adherence to responsible AI principles. AI systems are increasingly being deployed throughout society within different domains such as data science, robotics and autonomous systems, medicine, economy, and safety-critical systems. With the recent explosion of interest in generative AI systems, the accessibility and applicability of foundational models have grown exponentially.
Although the widespread use of AI systems in today’s world is growing, they have fundamental limitations and practical shortcomings, which can result in catastrophic failures. Specifically, many of the AI algorithms that are being implemented nowadays fail to guarantee safety and success and lack robustness in the face of uncertainties. Generative AI systems additionally give rise to a whole new suite of difficulties such as hallucinations, information leakage, toxicity, etc.
To ensure that AI systems are reliable, they need to be robust to disturbance, failure, and novel circumstances. Furthermore, this technology needs to offer assurance that it will reasonably avoid unsafe and irrecoverable situations. In order to push the boundaries of AI systems’ reliability, this special track at AAAI-24 will focus on cutting-edge research on both the theory and practice of developing safe, robust, and responsible AI systems. Specifically, the goal of this special track is to promote research that studies 1) the safety and robustness of AI systems, 2) AI algorithms that are able to analyze and guarantee their own safety and robustness, 3) AI algorithms that can analyze the safety and robustness of other systems and 4) mechanisms for building responsible and trustworthy AI systems. For acceptance into this track, we would expect papers to have fundamental contributions to safe, robust and responsible AI, as well as applicability to the complexity and uncertainty inherent in real-world applications.
In short, the special track covers topics related to safety and robustness of AI-based systems and to using AI-based technologies to enhance the safety and robustness of themselves and other critical systems, including but not limited to:
Submissions to this special track will follow the regular AAAI technical paper submission procedure, but the authors need to select the Safe, Robust and Responsible AI special track.
For submission instructions, please check: https://aaai.org/aaai-conference/call-for-the-special-track-on-safe-and-robust-ai