Upcoming Event

Date: November 4, 2026 (Wed) Time: 3:30 – 5pm Venue: Rm 10.13, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Professor Anandi Hattiangadi, Stockholm University Registration: Here Abstract: Over the past few weeks, we have been deluged with dire warnings that frontier models are on the verge of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), and

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: Nov 5-6, 2026 (Thur – Fri) Full Day Venue: Nov 5  – AM @ Rm4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Nov 5  – PM @ MPA (Multi-Purpose Area), 2/F, Main Library, HKU  Nov 6  – AM @ XR Space, Art Tech Lab, 4/F,  Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Nov 6  –

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,

Abstract: In recent work, I argued that there is an AI-specific no miracles argument (NMA) which is at least as plausible as the traditional NMA. In this talk, I will express two doubts about this claim, relative to the AI-specific NMA that I previously proposed. I will then develop a new AI-specific NMA in response,

Abstract: Making AI explainable has become an increasingly urgent demand, and one of the popular approaches is to generate so-called counterfactual explanations. In this talk, I attempt a philosophical critique of the key aspects of this approach, and raise an important challenge arising from a tension between two constraints on a good counterfactual explanation in

Abstract: To avoid predicting that certain kinds of compulsions contribute to welfare, many desire satisfaction theorists draw a distinction between genuine desires and other desires. Such theorists hold that it is only the satisfaction of genuine desires that contributes to welfare; other desires do not count. From the perspective of AI welfare, then, we must