Date: March 6, 2026 (Friday)
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Venue: Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Registration: Here
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 of whether such entities could have free will too. According to many traditional views, free will is a uniquely human phenomenon. I will argue that if we adopt a robust naturalistic understanding of free will, then we have good reasons to conclude that group agents and AI systems can have free will too. I will discuss the relevant account of free will and its implications. Background papers are available at https://philarchive.org/rec/LISDGA and https://philarchive.org/rec/LISCAS-3.
