Date: November 3, 2023 Title: Existential Risk from the Artificial Will Speaker: Dr Dmitri Gallow, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: I explain and motivate the shutdown problem: the problem of designing artificial agents that (1) shut down when a shutdown-button is pressed, (2) don’t try to prevent …
Date: November 17, 2023 Title: The Shutdown Problem: An AI Engineering Puzzle for Decision Theorists Speaker: Dr Elliott Thornley, University of Oxford Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: I explain and motivate the shutdown problem: the problem of designing artificial agents that (1) shut down when a shutdown-button is pressed, (2) don’t try …
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Date: February 23, 2024 (Friday) Speaker: Ms Karen Hao, Journalist Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: If European colonialism was characterized by the violent capture of land, extraction of resources, and exploitation of people for the economic enrichment of the conquering country, the AI industry is now using more insidious means …
Date: November 24, 2023 Title: Artificial Intelligence and Control of Humanity’s Future Speaker: Dr William D’Alessandro, University of Oxford Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: Current machine learning models perform many cognitive tasks at or beyond human level; future AI may outstrip us in every meaningful way. Under these circumstances, we’ll face …
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Date: February 2, 2024 (Friday) Speaker: Prof Sven Nyholm, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München Chair: Dr Frank Hong, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: In my presentation, I will first offer a general argument for why artificial intelligence (AI) might give rise to gaps in responsibility. I will then distinguish between what I call positive …
Date: January 10-11, 2024 Organizers: AI & Humanity Lab, Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Law Website: here
Date: November 21-22, 2023 (Tuesday, Thursday) 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? AI, Consciousness, Emotions, Intelligence, and Moral Standing …
On 31st May and 1st June, AIH and the Institute of Philosophy co-organized two days of talks and networking with experts from academia and industry on ‘ChatGPT and Other Creative Rivals’. Discussions included whether LLM are intelligent, whether LLMs are authors, and issues concerning policy and the ethics of LLMs. The recordings of both days of …
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Date: March 14-15, 2024 (Thursday, Friday) Organizers: AIH Lab, Programme on Artificial Intelligence and the Law It is an interdisciplinary workshop to foster greater collaboration between computer scientists and philosophers on the nature and point of benchmarking of AI. The workshop will explore questions such as: What are AI benchmarks? What should they be? …
Ai&Humanity@HKU, in conjunction with the University of Oslo’s New Frontiers In Speech project, is arranging a two day workshop on communicating with AI. The schedule is below; check back soon for abstracts. The conference website is here. Sunday, June 19th, 2022 9:00-10:30 Rachel Sterken, Eliot Michaelson and Jessica Pepp. The Alignment Problem in Human-AI Communication …