Workshop: Confronting and Mitigating the Negative Broader Impacts of Computing

这个研讨会寻求在计算研究社区理解、预测和交流其贡献的影响的能力方面产生革命性的改进，无论是积极的还是消极的。它还旨在确定激励研究的最有效手段，将负面影响降至最低。在当前关于新信息技术对人类后果的公开辩论的背景下，主要的计算机科学专业组织已经开始讨论如何找到方法将计算创新的弧线转向更少的负面影响和更积极的影响。此次研讨会旨在成为更广泛的影响催化剂，使许多资助的计算项目产生的更广泛影响比其他项目对美国和世界的积极影响要大得多。这次研讨会有三个同等的目标：(1)确定使用研究评估过程来应对和减轻计算研究的负面影响的最有效方法，(2)确定能够有效应对和缓解这些负面影响的其他方法，以及(3)通过展望活动和制定研究议程，提高我们理解和预测计算研究影响的能力。研讨会的成果，包括文章、技术资源和其他人工制品，将与更广泛的社区共享，为研究开发提供一个正式的框架，但也通过提供如何思考研究影响的教育，非正式地帮助计算社区的成员表达更好、更广泛的影响声明。研讨会的参与者将包括计算研究人员和新技术社会影响方面的专家。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop seeks to produce transformative improvements in the computing research community's ability to understand, predict, and communicate the impacts of its contributions, both positive and negative. It also aims to identify the most effective means of incentivizing research that minimizes negative impact. In the context of current public debates about the human consequences of new information technologies, major computer science professional organizations have begun discussing how to find ways to bend the arc of computing innovation towards fewer negative impacts and more positive impacts. This workshop aims to be a broader impacts catalyst, rendering the broader impacts of many funded computing projects substantially more positive for the United States and the world than they would have been otherwise. This workshop has three co-equal objectives: (1) Determine the most effective approaches for using the research evaluation process to confront and mitigate the negative impacts of computing research, (2) determine additional approaches that can be effective in confronting and mitigating these negative impacts, and (3) improve our capacity to understand and predict computing research impact through visioning activities and the development of a research agenda. Workshop results, including articles, technical resources, and other artifacts, will be shared with the wider community, providing a formal framework for research development, but also informally helping members of the computing community articulate better broader impacts statements by providing education about how to think about the impacts of one's research. Workshop participants will be comprised of both computing researchers and experts on the societal impacts of new technologies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.