University of Bergen Head of Department of Information Science and Media Studies
Marija Slavkovik is a professor at the University of Bergen in Norway. Her area of research is
Artificial Intelligence (AI) with expertese in collective reasoning. Slavkovik is active in the AI subdisciplines of:
multi-agent systems,
machine ethics and
computational social choice.
Slavkovik believes that the world can be improved by automating away the borring, repetitive and dangerous human tasks and that AI has a crutial role to play towards this goal. In AI, the big problem she hopes to solve is the efficient self-coordination of systems of artificial intelligent agents.
In machine ethics, Slavkovik is active in engineering machine ethics problems - How can we build autonomous systems and artificial agents that behave ethically? Want to know what is happening in machine ethics since it stopped being an SF-only topic? There is a
tutorialfor that. Slavkovik co-organised a
Dagstuhl Seminar in 2019 on this topic. She is also one of the guest editors of the Special Issue on Ethics for Autonomous Systems of the AI Journal.
Slavkovik is the vice-chair of the
Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society and member of the informal advisory group on Ethical, Legal, Social Issues of
CLAIRE. She is in the education committee of
NORA curently working on developing a national phd course on AI ethics.
In computational social choice and multi-agent syste, Slavkovik is particularly active in Judgment Aggregation. If you are wondering what this is there is a
tutorial for that. Her new passion in this field is looking for ways to consider social network interaction of agents and what impact that can have on collective reasoning and decision-making, particularly in aggregation. For more on what social network analysis has to do with AI go
here.Slavkovik was the chair and host of the
16th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems EUMAS held December 6-7, 2018 in Bergen. Here are the
proceedings. She is also in the board of
EURAMAS.