Seminario: Value-Aware Artificial Intelligence
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Just as human values guide our decisions and actions, we argue that values should also motivate AI behaviour. Aligning AI systems with human values is essential for developing trustworthy and responsible AI. In this talk we present the value engineering challenge: how to design AI that can identify and understand human values reason about them and explain its behaviour in value-based terms. Beyond the theoretical foundations, we will showcase practical applications that demonstrate how value-aware AI can operate in real-world contexts, offering insights into both the technical challenges and the broader impact of this research.
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Acerca de Osmand, Nardine
Nardine Osman is a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She earned her PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2008. Her research expertise covers multiagent systems, normative systems, trust and reputation, and formal verification. Leveraging this expertise, she has been focusing recently on value engineering in AI, a field aimed at developing systems that can identify and understand human values, reason according to those values, and explain behaviour in terms of them. Nardine currently leads the Ethics and AI research line at IIIA-CSIC and is actively involved in major projects. She led the €1.8M Spanish project VAE (Value-Awareness Engineering) and contributes to the EU-funded VALAWAI project on value awareness in AI. Additionally, she has recently co-founded the International Workshop on Value Engineering in AI with Luc Steels, which is now in its fourth edition at IJCAI / ECAI 2026.