Upcoming Event

Date: March 3, 2026 (Tuesday) Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Venue: Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Registration: Here Speaker: Professor Christian List, Ludwig-Maximillian-University Munich Abstract: Suppose a committee, expert panel, or other group is making judgments on some issues, where these may be not just yes/no-questions, such as whether a defendant is guilty, […]

Date: March 6, 2026 (Friday) Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Venue: Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Registration: Here Speaker: Professor Christian List, Ludwig-Maximillian-University Munich Abstract: There has been much discussion of whether it makes sense to ascribe agency and responsibility to artificial entities, such as corporate entities and AI systems. But there has been much

Date: April 1-3, 2026 (Thur-Sat)  Day 1 – Apr 1, 2026 Thur at 9:30am – 4:00pm  Day 2 – Apr 2, 2026 Fri at 9:30am – 4:00pm  Day 3 – Apr 3, 2026 Sat at 9:30am – 4:00pm  Venue: Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU Master of Arts-AI, Ethics and Society (MAAIES) and HKU AIH Lab Registration: 

Updated on 2 June 2025  Date: 15-19 Jun 2026 Venue: Venice International University Hosted by the University of Hong Kong, the Institute of Philosophy (University of London), and LMU, the 2026 Philosophy of AI Summer School offers an intensive five-day programme devoted to this year’s theme: Reasoning and Agency in AI. The summer school brings together

Date: April 23-24, 2026 (Thur – Fri)  Day 1 – Apr 23, 2026 Thur Time: 9:30am – 5:10pm Venue:  Floor 11, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Day 2 – Apr 24, 2026 Fri Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm  Venue: Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU Master of Arts-AI, Ethics and

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Boris Babic, University of Pittsburgh

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China  Speaker: Professor Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh  

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Wayne Wu, University of Pittsburgh Abstract: What are the tools we need to make progress on consciousness? The central tool has been introspection, but I raise questions about introspection

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China Speaker: Professor Keith Frankish, University of Sheffield Abstract: The concept of consciousness as a private inner show of phenomenal qualities is broken. It creates the Hard Problem without helping neuroscience or

After ‘Consciousness’ Workshop Date: January 27-28, 2026 (Tuesday – Wednesday) Venue: Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Co-Organized by: HKU-AIH Lab & Berggruen Institute China  Speaker:Professor Matti Eklund, Uppsala University Abstract: In earlier work I have considered the possibility of alien languages: languages with alien elements, different in kind from elements of familiar languages. Here is