Erica Fung

Counterfactual Explanations in AI: A Tension between ‘Causality’ and ‘Plausibility’

Abstract: Making AI explainable has become an increasingly urgent demand, and one of the popular approaches is to generate so-called counterfactual explanations. In this talk, I attempt a philosophical critique of the key aspects of this approach, and raise an important challenge arising from a tension between two constraints on a good counterfactual explanation in […]

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Chat GPT and Other Creative Rivals (Conference Video Now Online)

On 31st May and 1st June, AIH and the Institute of Philosophy co-organized two days of talks and networking with experts from academia and industry on ‘ChatGPT and Other Creative Rivals’. Discussions included whether LLM are intelligent, whether LLMs are authors, and issues concerning policy and the ethics of LLMs.  The recordings of both days of

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Announcing PhD Fellowships

PhD Fellowships Available for work on Philosophy of AI: Each year, AI&H makes available a limited number of 4-year PhD fellowships for highly qualified candidates interested in pursuing a PhD in the philosophy department at HKU on issues related to the Philosophy of AI. If you are interested in this, in the first instance, email

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