Date: November 4, 2026 (Wed) Time: 3:30 – 5pm Venue: Rm 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Anandi Hattiangadi, Stockholm University Abstract: Over the past few weeks, we have been deluged with dire warnings that frontier models are on the verge of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), and that when
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Date: Feb 19, 2027 (Fri) Time: To be announced Venue: HKU Campus Host: AI & Humanity Lab@HKU and Law & Technology Center@HKU Description: This workshop will convene leading legal scholars and philosophers for a discussion of how we ought to treat AI systems in the law. This is a particularly salient topic as a number
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Date: Nov 5-6, 2026 (Thur – Fri) Full Day Venue: Nov 5 – AM @ Rm4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Nov 5 – PM @ MPA (Multi-Purpose Area), 2/F, Main Library, HKU Nov 6 – AM @ XR Space, Art Tech Lab, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Nov 6 –
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Date: April 28, 2026 (Tuesday) Time: 3:15pm – 6:15pm Venue: Rm 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Hosted by: AI & Humanity Lab@HKU, HKU IDS/IDEAS, Law & Technology Centre, HKU Speakers: Prof Gilad Abiri, Peking University Prof Nicole Wu, HKU Prof Boris Babic, HKU Prof Brian Wong, HKU Prof Weiwei Shen, China
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Date: March 6, 2026 (Friday) Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Venue: Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Christian List, Ludwig-Maximillian-University Munich Abstract: There has been much discussion of whether it makes sense to ascribe agency and responsibility to artificial entities, such as corporate entities and AI systems. But there has been much less discussion
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Date: April 1-3, 2026 (Wed-Fri) Day 1 – Apr 1, 2026 Wed at 12:50pm – 5:00pm Day 2 – Apr 2, 2026 Thur at 10:00am – 2:00pm Day 3 – Apr 3, 2026 Fri at 1:00pm – 5:00pm Venue: Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU Master of Arts-AI, Ethics and Society (MAAIES), PhilMod and
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Updated on 2 June 2025 Date: 15-19 Jun 2026 Venue: Venice International University Hosted by the University of Hong Kong, the Institute of Philosophy (University of London), and LMU, the 2026 Philosophy of AI Summer School offers an intensive five-day programme devoted to this year’s theme: Reasoning and Agency in AI. The summer school brings together
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Date: April 23-24, 2026 (Thur – Fri) Day 1 – Apr 23, 2026 Thur Time: 9:15am – 5:40pm Venue: Floor 11, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Day 2 – Apr 24, 2026 Fri Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm Venue: Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU Master of Arts-AI, Ethics and
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Date: January 29, 2026 (Thursday) Time: 5-6pm Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Alice Huang, Western University Abstract: There is a literature across science and technology studies, sociology of science, and philosophy examining the phenomenon of hype in science and technology. While definitions of hypes vary, most accounts share a critical stance,
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After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
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