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Artificial Intelligence and Control of Humanity’s Future

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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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AI, Positive and Negative Responsibility Gaps, and Two Asymmetries between Praise and Blame

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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

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Chat GPT and Other Creative Rivals (Conference Video Now Online)

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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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AI Benchmarking Workshop

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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?

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Upcoming conference in Oslo

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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

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Cameron Bruckner Talk

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On 6 May 2022, at 10am HK, Philosophy@HKU, in an event co-sponsored by AI&Humanity, will be hosting Cameron Bruckner (University of Houston), who will give a talk entitled Ideational Preparation Is All You Need–Deep Learning Meets the Faculty Empiricism Of William James. The event will be held on Zoom. More details, including the Zoom link,

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Zoom Roundtable

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Introducing the Hong Kong Philosophy of AI group (see here for more details), we’re holding a roundtable on Zoom with Herman Cappelen, Janet Hiao, and Jiji Zhang. Topic. What is meant by “Explainable and Interpretable AI”? When is it important that AI be interpretable and explainable? What are the methods of achieving and measuring explainability?

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