Cappelen on TV about AI and society
Cappelen recently featured in a (Chinese language) TV show about risks and benefits arising from the development of powerful AI. You can watch it on Youtube here.
Philosophy of AI summer school: applications open!
The Lab, along with the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the London AI and Humanity project, are organizing a summer school in philosophy of AI. The school is designed for PhD students, postdocs, and early career researchers in Philosophy, but is also open to those working in cognate areas …
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ChatGPT and other creative rivals: videos
On May 31 and June 1 2023, AI&Humanity, along with the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies, London, held a two-day workshop on LLMs. (More information is here.) The conference brought together leading experts from academia and industry to discuss a range of philosophical issues surrounding LLMs, including: •The nature of intelligence: …
AI&H Visitors 2023-2024
In the 2023/24 semester many international scholars will be visiting the AI & Humanity Lab in person here in Hong Kong, both for workshops we are holding and also to guest lecture at our affiliated masters in AI, Ethics, And Society program. Fall 23 Simon Goldstein (ACU) Adam Bradley (Lingnan) Eliot Michaelson (KCL) Linus Huang …
AI&H awarded funding!
Cappelen, with McKeever, has been awarded a grant from the University Grants Committee for the year 2023/4. The funded project, entitled ‘Can AIs and humans understand each other?’ aims to use results from philosophy of language and mind to create improved models of AI understanding, and to respond to prominent arguments that say systems like …
AI Impacts Workshop, HKU, March 2024: info and cfp
The AI&Humanity Lab is organizing its first annual AI impacts workshop. The workshop will take place 14-15 March 2024 and aims to bring researchers from across the world and across disciplines to discuss the impact of AI on society, where this is all conceived very broadly. To that end, we are presenting a call for …
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MA in AI, ethics, and society at HKU
The faculty of arts at the University of Hong Kong is inviting applications for admission to a new one year masters course in the field of AI, ethics, and society. Students on the course will be able to attend the Lab’s events, including visitor speaking series, workshops, and conferences featuring leading scholars in AI from …
ChatGPT and other creative rivals: event in London
The Institute of Philosophy, SAS, and the AI&Humanity Lab at Hong Kong University co-organized a two-day event on LLMs: whether they are intelligent, whether they are authors, and issues concerning policy and the ethics of LLMs. For more information including a schedule and list of participants, see here.
Cappelen at IDS
On 26th April, Cappelen spoke at the Interdisciplinary Speaker Series at the Institute of Data Science. The event is co-hosted by AI&Humanity. See below for more information. A recording of the event is here.
Cappelen and Sterken at HKBU
Cappelen and Sterken recently gave talks at the conference Ethical and Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence: East-Asia and Beyond held in Hong Kong Baptist University. More details can be found here.