Abstracts Title: LLM – The Split-Brainer That Talks Back Zheng Zhang (Director at Amazon Web Services Shanghai AI Lab, Senior Principal Scientist) Abstract: This talk presents a demystifying journey into Large Language Models (LLMs) through both technical exposition and philosophical inquiry. The first half provides an accessible crash course on LLM fundamentals: how next-token prediction
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
Date: September 12, 2025 (Friday) Time: 15:30 – 17:00 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor David Thorstad Associate Professor of Philosophy Vanderbilt University Abstract: Recent years have seen increasing concern that artificial intelligence may soon pose an existential risk to humanity. One leading ground for concern is that
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Updated on 2 June 2025 Date: 30 Jun – 4 Jul 2025 Venue: The University of London in Paris (ULIP) Hosted by the Institute of Philosophy, University of London, School of Advanced Study and the AI & Humanity Lab of The University of Hong Kong. The Philosophy of AI Summer School offers an intensive, 5-day program led
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Date: 30 January 2026 (Friday) Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speakers: Prof Mark Coeckelbergh, Philosophy, University of Vienna Abstract: Democracy theories assume that citizens have some form of political knowledge. But apart from widespread attention to the phenomenon of fake news and misinformation, less attention has been
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Date: 12 September 2025 (Friday) Time: 1530 – 1700 Venue: Room 10.13, 10/F, Seminar Room, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Registration: Here Speakers: Prof David Thorstad, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Abstract: Recent years have seen increasing concern that artificial intelligence may soon pose an existential risk to humanity. One leading ground for concern is
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Date: 19 September 2025 (Friday) Time: 1530 – 1700 Venue: To be announced Registration: Here Speakers: Geoffrey Keeling, Senior Research Scientist, Google Winnie Street, Senior Research Scientist, Google Abstract: (To be announced)
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Project Officer/Assistant Project Officer (at the rank of Clerk I/II) in the School of Humanities (Philosophy) (to commence as soon as possible, on temporary basis until May 31, 2026). Applicants should possess a good Bachelor’s degree with at least two years of relevant work experience. Excellent written and spoken English and Chinese, strong communication, IT and
Philosophy of AI Summer School 2025 Unites Global Scholars in Paris Updated on 5 July 2025 Date: 30 June to 4 July 2025 Venue: University of London in Paris Campus The Philosophy of AI Summer School, held from June 30 to July 4, 2025, at the University of London in Paris campus, brought together a dynamic group of
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