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AI, Consciousness, Emotions, Intelligence, and Moral Standing

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 21, 2023 Title: AI, Consciousness, Emotions, […]

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The Shutdown Problem: An AI Engineering Puzzle for Decision Theorists

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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Artificial Intelligence and Control of Humanity’s Future

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

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)

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

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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