Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

We are delighted to welcome the Fifth AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2022) and all its participants to Oxford and to bring the community back together in person. The pandemic prevented last year's conference from taking place in person, but it did not slow down the rise in urgency to address the issues considered by this community. Indeed, the pandemic introduced new issues, including, for example, important exams being conducted online while participants were monitored automatically through their camera; perhaps predictably, the software did not work well for darker-skinned test-takers, putting them at a disadvantage as they had to add lights behind the screen to shine on their faces, to compensate for the software's limitations. Fortunately, the AIES community has not been sitting still during the pandemic. One of the manifestations of that is the new Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford, which is hosting the conference. We are happy to hold the conference at the lovely Keble College, thereby also providing an Oxford-style residential experience. That said, this iteration of AIES will be a hybrid conference, allowing those who are unable to attend in person, whether because of the pandemic or for other reasons, to still participate. It is easy to underestimate the work that goes into putting together a conference like this, and it would not have been possible without the intense effort of many people. First and foremost, there would not be a conference without a program, and the program chairs - Matthias Scheutz, Ryan Calo, Martina Mara, and Annette Zimmermann - have worked very hard to put together a wonderful program. Of course, the program chairs in turn relied on many others, as you can read in their own welcome to these proceedings. We also have a great student program, organized by student-program chairs Brent Venable, Emanuelle Burton, and Theodore Lechterman. Marie Watson of the Institute for Ethics in AI and Senan Simmons of Keble College have been very helpful with local arrangements. To allow those who cannot travel to Oxford to still participate, Wenbin Zhang is managing the virtual component of the conference. Francisco "Tito" Cruz has been extremely helpful putting together the conference's website. AAAI, led by Meredith Ellison and with Chesley Grove as conference manager, has provided invaluable organizational support, and ACM is helping us put together these proceedings. Our sponsors, listed with their logos elsewhere in these proceedings, have provided a budget that enabled us to bring in amazing invited speakers, provide students with scholarships, and generally keep registration fees low. We thank the steering committee of the conference series for their guidance, and more generally everyone who has helped establish the conference series in prior years. Finally, all the organizational talent in the world cannot run a good conference if there is nobody to do the research, participate in the conference, and read the proceedings as you are doing right now. Thanks to all of you for making this conference the wonderful event that it is.

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