Date: November 28, 2025 (Friday)
Time: 13:30-15:00
Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Speaker: Dr Erica Mealy, University of the Sunshine Coast
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded within sociotechnical systems—complex networks where human practices, institutional structures, and technological components interact. In these environments, ensuring the reliability of AI is not merely a technical challenge but a collaborative one. This seminar explores how bias in AI systems arises from data, design, and deployment contexts, and how it affects the reliability of outcomes across diverse applications.
Dr. Erica Mealy will examine how human actors contribute to and respond to AI-generated outputs, highlighting the co-production of reliability through interpretation, oversight, and adaptation. Rather than treating AI as an autonomous decision-maker, the talk frames it as part of a broader sociotechnical system where reliability emerges from the interplay between human and machine.
Philosophy researchers are invited to engage with the epistemic and ethical dimensions of these systems, considering how concepts like trust, responsibility, and transparency shift when AI is integrated into collaborative human contexts. The seminar aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on how to design and evaluate AI systems that support dependable and context-sensitive human-AI partnerships
