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Speaker: Dr. Henry Shevlin (U of Cambridge) Abstract: If we can build AI systems that want to serve us, should we? Critics such as Eric Schwitzgebel argue that designing minds for willing servitude wrongs them, either by compromising their self-respect or by getting the relationship between creator and created backwards. I argue that these objections

Speaker:  Prof. Paul Boghossian (NYU)   Abstract: This talk explores which methodology is appropriate for examining whether artificial neural networks have human-like intelligence and then applies the lessons learned to the case of understanding and reasoning. I would love to do a short volume for your series developing the ideas in the talk described above.  I don’t

Speaker: Prof. John Hawthorne (USC) Abstract: A number of philosophers have been compelled by the thesis that the property of being phenomenally conscious is determinate: Necessarily, any x determinately has it or determinately lacks it. But there is very good reason to think they are wrong. Where does that leave us? 

Speaker: Prof. Herman Cappelen (HKU)    

Date: November 13, 2026 (Fri) Time: 3:30 – 5pm Venue: Rm 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Simon Huttegger, University of California, Irvine Registration: Here Abstract: The Ramsey sentence approach to scientific theories has been a mainstay in philosophy of science, especially in the debates between empiricism, realism, and structural

Date: Feb 19, 2027 (Fri) Time: To be announced Venue: HKU Campus Host: AI & Humanity Lab@HKU and Law & Technology Center@HKU Description: This workshop will convene leading legal scholars and philosophers for a discussion of how we ought to treat AI systems in the law. This is a particularly salient topic as a number

Date: 12 September 2025 (Friday) Time: 1530 – 1700 Venue: Room 10.13, 10/F, Seminar Room, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Registration: Here Speakers: Prof David Thorstad, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University Abstract: Recent years have seen increasing concern that artificial intelligence may soon pose an existential risk to humanity. One leading ground for concern is

Date: 19 September 2025 (Friday) Time: 1530 – 1700 Venue: To be announced Registration: Here Speakers: Geoffrey Keeling, Senior Research Scientist, Google  Winnie Street, Senior Research Scientist, Google Abstract: (To be announced)

  The Peking University, Beijing Normal University and The University of Hong Kong has jointly organised a workshop on Philosophy and AI, funded by the Research Funds for Excellent Interdisciplinary Research Groups at Beijing Normal University. Dates: April 26-27, 2025Venue: Berggruen Institute China Center, No. 54 Yannan Garden, Peking University, Beijing Host Department of Philosophy

Date: April 11, 2025 (Friday) Speaker: Professor Regina Rini Associate Professor Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition Department of Philosophy, York University PhD, New York University, 2011 B.A., Georgetown University, 2004 Canada Research Chair in Social and Moral Cognition and Associate Professor of Philosophy. Research background in moral psychology, ethical theory,