Erica Fung

Date: Novermber 17, 2025 (Mon) Time: 15:00-17:00 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor James Joyce , C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Commentors: Professor Jiji Zhang (The Chinese University of HK) Professor Boris Babic (Hong Kong University) Professor Simon Goldstein (Hong Kong University) Professor Kangyu […]

Date: Novermber 14, 2025 (Friday) Time: 15:30-17:00 Venue: MB142, 1/F, Main Building, HKU Speaker: Professor James Joyce , C. H. Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Abstract: After introducing the notion of credal accuracy, and explaining why formal epistemologists use strictly proper scoring rules to measure it, I will introduce some well-known accuracy

Date: December 5, 2025 (Friday) Time: 15:30-17:00 Venue: Rm 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Prof Ryan M. Nefdt, University of Cape Town Abstract: There is a veritable cornucopia of options for scholars interested in using the tools of philosophy and cognitive science to interpret the behaviour of large language models

Date: October 28, 2025 (Tue) Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Venue: P603 IDS Office, Graduate House, HKU Speaker: Prof Frederick Eberhardt, Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology Moderator: Prof Boris Babic, Dept of Philosophy & Law (by courtesy), HKU Abstract: Causal representations are models of real-world data that retain causal information, so in particular, they provide

Date: October 9, 2025 (Thursday) Time: 18:15 – 19:30 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speakers: Professor Boris Babic, Department of Philosophy, HKUProfessor Simon Goldstein , Department of Philosophy, HKUProfessor Maximilian Kiener, Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology Professor Brian Wong, Department of Philosophy, HKU Abstract: The top AI labs are

Date: October 10, 2025 (Friday) Time: 15:30 – 17:00 Venue: Room 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Maximilian Kiener Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology Abstract: The scholarly literature presents various approaches to integrating ethical considerations into the development of AI, most prominently the approaches ‘ethics by

Date: September 19, 2025 (Friday) Time: 14:00 – 17:00 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Geoff Keeling, Staff Research Scientist, Google Winnie Street, Senior Researcher, Google Abstract: A symposium on the forthcoming book “AI Welfare” by Geoff Keeling and Winnie Street. This is an examination of whether—and which—AI systems