Past Event

Date: November 28, 2025 (Friday) Time: 13:30-15:00 Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Dr Erica Mealy, University of the Sunshine Coast Abstract: Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded within sociotechnical systems—complex networks where human practices, institutional structures, and technological components interact. In these environments, ensuring the reliability of AI is not […]

Date: October 28, 2025 (Tue) Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Venue: P603 IDS Office, Graduate House, HKU Speaker: Prof Frederick Eberhardt, Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology Moderator: Prof Boris Babic, Dept of Philosophy & Law (by courtesy), HKU Abstract: Causal representations are models of real-world data that retain causal information, so in particular, they provide

Date: October 9, 2025 (Thursday) Time: 18:15 – 19:30 Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speakers: Professor Boris Babic, Department of Philosophy, HKUProfessor Simon Goldstein , Department of Philosophy, HKUProfessor Maximilian Kiener, Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology Professor Brian Wong, Department of Philosophy, HKU Abstract: The top AI labs are

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.