Past Event

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

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

Date: March 5-6, 2025 (Wednesday, Thursday) Organizer: AIH Lab   Desire homuncularism – Agency, ethical standing, and skin in the game Prof Steve Petersen,  Niagara University AI Zombies: Global Workspace Theory and Resource-Rational Analysis Prof Justin Tiehen,  University of Puget Sound It probably doesn’t matter whether software can be made sentient Dr Andreas Mogensen, University of Oxford

Date: February 7, 2025 (Friday) Speaker: Ms Ninell Oldenburg, University of Copenhagen Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: While most technical and philosophical research on LLMs tries to find a translation from human functions to computational principles, understanding the flip side — how computational principles translate into natural ones — is often overlooked.

Date: February 21, 2025 (Friday) Speaker: Dr Leonard Dung, Ruhr-University Bochum Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: Does consciousness require biology or can systems made out of other materials be conscious? I develop an argument for the view that it is (nomologically) possible that some non-biological creatures are conscious, including conventional, silicon-based AI

Date: February 28, 2025 (Friday) Speaker: Prof Jeffrey Howard, University College London Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: Social media platforms’ AI systems learn from user data to predict what content will keep users engaged. This content is subsequently amplified, increasing its visibility. Over the past years, many critics have claimed that

Date: January 17, 2025 (Friday) Time: 13:00 – 18:00 Organizers: AIH Lab and Hong Kong Ethics Lab Prof Seth Lazar, Australian National University Agent Advocates: Some Questions and Issues Prof Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen, Yonsei University AI Personhood: A Cost-sensitive Analysis Dr Yiwen Zhan, Beijing Normal University Steering Towards Utopia: The Importance of the Medium Term in AI

Date: February 14, 2025 (Friday) Organizers: AIH Lab, Programme on Artificial Intelligence and the Law and Hong Kong Ethics Lab A Matter of Principle? AI alignment as the Fair Treatment of Claims (co-authored with Geoffrey Keeling) Iason Gabriel, Staff Research Scientist, Google Deepmind Evaluating AI Agents for Dangerous (Cognitive) Capabilities Geoffrey Keeling, Senior Research Scientist, Google The Fair Treatment of