Date: June 26, 2024 (Wednesday) Organizers: AIH Lab, Programme on Artificial Intelligence and the Law Keynote Speech Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law, Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School “The Regulation of Simulation in an Era of Generative AI” Chair: Haochen Sun, Professor & Director, Programme on AI and the Law, HKU Faculty of Law Panel 1 Chair: Anna Wu […]
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Date: April 26, 2024 (Friday) Speaker: Prof Seth Lazar, Australian National University Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: The recent acceleration in public understanding of AI capabilities has been matched by growing concern—from presidents, industry leaders, scientists, and the wider public—about its potentially catastrophic, even existential risks. But at the same time,
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Date: April 5, 2024 (Friday) Speaker: Dr Kate Vredenburgh, London School of Economics Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: Proponents of algorithmic decision-making have argued that the use of algorithms can reduce discrimination, against the baseline of human decision-making. One reason is the greater explainability of the models, or the ability to
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Date & Time: Mar 1, 2024 (Fri), 4:00 – 6:30 pmMar 2, 2024 (Sat), 9:30 am – 6:30 pm Programme Rundown: here AI, Music, and Creativity: At a Crossroads is an international symposium jointly hosted by the HKU Department of Music and the AI & Humanity Lab at the Department of Philosophy. This event is a
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Date: February 20, 2024 (Tuesday) Speaker: Prof William Lucy, Durham University Law School Chair: Prof Scott Veitch, The University of Hong Kong
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Date: March 8, 2024 (Friday) Speaker: Prof Song Fei, Lingnan University Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: In the literature on trustworthy AI, there are two main positions. The first view is in order to illuminating trustworthy AI, we need a general account of trust and trustworthiness, which is less anthropocentric. Because
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Date: March 13, 2024 (Wednesday) Speaker: Dr Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: This paper concerns the Proxy Problem: often machine learning programs utilize seemingly innocuous features as proxies for socially-sensitive attributes, posing various challenges for the creation of ethical algorithms. I argue
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Date: December 16, 2023 Organizers: AI & Humanity Lab, Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Law Website: here
Reframing Intellectual Property Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Conference Read More »
AI Agency and Wellbeing Workshop The workshop explores the following questions: Can a large language model be a cognitive and linguistic agent (in the way that humans are agents)? Can there be such a thing as AI well-being? If the answers are yes, what are the implications? Date: November 22, 2023 Title: Coopting Artificial Achievement
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Date: March 20-21, 2024 (Wednesday, Thursday) Organizers: AIH Lab, Programme on Artificial Intelligence and the Law It is the first annual PAIA workshop where we will be gathering philosophers of AI in Asia to foster greater collaboration between the different universities in Hong Kong and its surrounding regions. AI Safety: The Climb to Armageddon Prof
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