
Political Economy of Reinforcement Learning (PERLS) Workshop
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
December, 2021
The NeurIPS 2021 PERLS Workshop is on Tuesday, December 14th, time zone: New York (USA).
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Time (ET) | Event | |
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7:00am | Pre-show meet and greet | |
8:00am | Welcome | |
8:20am |
[Plenary] Culturing PERLS (Mark Nitzberg)
Chairperson: Aaron Snoswell |
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8:55am | 5 minute break | |
9:00am |
Theme 1: Vagueness & Specification |
Theme Summary:
How should RL systems be designed in the face of difficult specification problems and normative indeterminacies?
How do these problems change in particular domains or as RL systems become more capable?
Chairperson: Michael Dennis [Presentations]
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10:40am | 10 minute break | |
10:50am |
Theme 2: Legitimacy, Accountability, |
Theme Summary:
To what extent does RL automate many feedback mechanisms for oversight and control that social institutions (e.g. governments) presently enforce or take for granted?
How can stakeholders acquire a voice in system evaluation?
Chairperson: Aaron Snoswell [Presentations]
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12:15 Noon | 45 minute lunch break | |
1:00pm | Poster session on Gather Town - for accepted papers, please see here. | |
2:55pm | 5 minute break | |
3:00pm |
Theme 3: Tools for democratization |
Theme Summary:
What new policy tools (technical or otherwise) could be used to achieve democratic control and oversight of RL systems?
What organizational theories are needed to inform or shape how democratization should proceed?
Chairperson: Thomas Gilbert [Presentations]
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4:30pm | Closing remarks |