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Events

Upcoming

HUMAN-REQUIRED ORIGINALITY: RECALIBRATING COPYRIGHT FOR A POST-AI WORLD

Prof Ryan Whalen
University of HK

20 Mar 2026

Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Prof Tobias Rees
Consciousness. Before and After (with some notes on AI)

31 Mar 2026

Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
'AI & The Future of Platforms' Workshop
1-3 Apr 2026
Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU





HK Global AI Governance Conference

10-12 Apr 2026
Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Prof Robert Sparrow
Monash University

17 Apr 2026
Rm10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

"AI Agent and Companions" Workshop
23-24 Apr 2026
Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
PHAI-4 Workshop
16-17 May 2026

Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Philosophy of AI Summer School 2026: Reasoning and Agency in AI
15-19 Jun 2026
Venice, Italy
Prof Andrew Brenner
Hong Kong Baptist University
18 Sep 2026
Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
PHAI-5 Workshop
16-17 Oct 2026

Hokkaido, Japan

Prof Murray Shanahan
Imperial College London/DeepMind
6 Nov 2026
Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Prof Jason Brennan
GeorgeTown University
(Date tbc)
HKU

Past Event 2025-2026

Can Artificial Agents Have Free Will?

Prof Christian List
Ludwig-Maximillian-University Munich

6 Mar 2026
Rm4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Collective Intelligence Through Aggregation

Prof Christian List
Ludwig-Maximillian-University Munich

3 Mar 2026
Rm4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Democracy, Epistemic Agency, and AI
Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh
University of Vienna

30 Jan 2026
@Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
The Efficiency of Hyping
Prof. Alice Huang
Western University

29 Jan 2026
@Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
After "Consciousness" Workshop
AIH Lab x Berggruen Institute

27-28 Jan 2026
@Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Linguistic Relativity, LLMs, and the Hog Thesis

Ryan Nefdt
5 Dec 2025
@Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Entangled Responsibilities: Bias, Reliability, and Human-AI Collaboration in Sociotechnical Systems

Erica Mealy
University of the Sunshine Coast

28 Nov 2025
@Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Causal Decision Theory for Unratifiable Actions
Professor James Joyce
University of Michigan
17 Nov 2025
@Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Can Learning Truths Make your Beliefs Less Accurate?
Professor James Joyce
University of Michigan
14 Nov 2025
@MB142, 1/F, Main Building, HKU
Learning Causal Representations

Prof. Frederick Eberhardt
California Institute of Technology

28 Oct 2025
@P603 IDS Office, Graduate House, HKU
PHAI-3 Workshop
11-12 October 2025 Fudan University, Shanghai
Deep Ethics
Prof. Maximilian Kiener

Hamburg University of Technology

10 Oct 2025
@Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Who's Afraid of AGI?
9 Oct 2025
@Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
AI Welfare
Geoff Keeling and Winnie Street
Google

19 Sep 2025 (Fri)
@Rm 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Instrumental Convergence and Power-Seeking
Prof. David Thorstad
Vanderbilt University

12 Sep 2025
@Rm 10.13, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Philosophy of AI Summer School
June 30-July 4, 2025
Conference on LLMs and externalism in London
Jun 26-27, 2025
Workshop on Philosophy and AI at Peking University
April 26 - 27, 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Destabilized Moral Concepts
Prof Regina Rini, York University (Toronto)
Philosophy of AI in Asia Workshop
March 26-27, 2025
AI Consciousness and Well-Being
March 5-6, 2025
The Ethics of Amplification (February 28, 2025)
Prof Jeffrey Howard, University College London
Future science and artificial consciousness (February 21, 2025)
Dr Leonard Dung, Ruhr-University Bochum
The Philosophy of AI: Themes from Iason Gabriel

February 14, 2025
Can LLMs Make Trade-offs Involving Stipulated Pain and Pleasure States? (February 12, 2025)
Geoffrey Keeling, Senior Research Scientist, Google
Regulating Artificial Intelligence in the Public Interest workshop
February 10, 2025
Deepseek – Unpacking the Technical, Financial, and Geopolitical Implications
February 7, 2025
Philosophical Commitments to LLM Evaluations: The Problem of Moving Goalposts and Observational Relativity (February 7, 2025)
Ms Ninell Oldenburg, University of Copenhagen
The Philosophy of AI: Themes from Seth Lazar

January 17, 2025

Past

The Linguistic and Cognitive Capacities of LLMs
December 9-10, 2024
Epistemic opportunities: AI Systems as Cognitive Scaffolding (December 7, 2024)
Dr Karina Vold, University of Toronto
AI and the future of consciousness science (December 4, 2024)
Dr Henry Shevlin, University of Cambridge
What was a Photograph? (November 22, 2024)
Ms Sarah Jeong, Journalist
Illusions of Understanding in Deep Learning (November 15, 2024)
Dr Raphael Milliere, Macquarie University
Platform Tyranny, Rule of Law, and Virtual Community (November 8, 2024)
Dr Sean Donahue, Australian National University
Philosophy of AI - AI Survival Stories: A Taxonomic Analysis of AI Existential Risk (November 7, 2024)
Professor Herman Cappelen, HKU
Strategic Determinism: the Limitations of Governments in Shaping AI Development (November 1, 2024)
Michael Frank, Founder and CEO, Seldon Strategies and 2430 Fellow, 2430 Group
Two Models of General Artificial Intelligence (October 28, 2024)
Prof Carlos Montemayor, San Francisco State University
What happens when you simulate an algorithm? (October 17, 2024)
Dr Alice Wong, Chapman University
Against Willing AI Servitude (September 20, 2024)
Dr Adam Bales, University of Oxford
Continuity, Realism, and the Objects of Philosophical Inquiry (co-authored with Tristram McPherson) (September 17, 2024)
Prof David Plunkett, Dartmouth College
AI, Law and Philosophy workshop
July 16, 2024
Philosophy of AI Summer School
July 1-5, 2024
Charting New Frontiers
in AI and Society
June 26, 2024
Being Human in the Age of AI
May 23-24, 2024
Using ChatGPT to Improve Writing Skills (May 3, 2024)
Kathryn Goldstein, The University of Hong Kong



What, if Anything, Should We Do, Now, About Catastrophic AI Risk? (April 26, 2024)
Prof Seth Lazar, Australian National University
Philosophy of AI in Asia Workshop
March 20-21, 2024
The Limits of Explainability for Reducing Algorithmic Discrimination (April 5, 2024)
Dr Kate Vredenburgh, London School of Economics
From AI Ethics to Governance (March 19, 2024)
Alex Campolo (Durham), Federica Russo (Utrecht), Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (Pretoria), Katia Schwerzmann (Bochum)
AI Benchmarking Workshop
March 14-15, 2024
The Hard Proxy Problem: Proxies Aren't Intentional, They're Intentional (March 13, 2024)
Dr Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College
A Network Account of Trustworthy AI: A New Framework (March 8, 2024)
Prof Song Fei, Lingnan University
Conceptual Design (March 7, 2024)
Luciano Siebert (TU Delft), Giulio Mecacci (Radboud), Herman Veluwenkamp (Groningen)
AI, Music, and Creativity: International Symposium & 2023/24 Rayson Huang Lectures
March 1-2, 2024
AI and The Very Old World Order (February 23, 2024)
Karen Hao, Journalist
Law, Technological Management and the Future of Agency (February 20, 2024)
Prof William Lucy, Durham University Law School
AI, Positive and Negative Responsibility Gaps, and Two Asymmetries between Praise and Blame (February 2, 2024)
Prof Sven Nyholm, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Enhancing Personal Data Protection in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Conference
January 10-11, 2024
Reframing Intellectual Property Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Conference
December 16, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Control of Humanity’s Future (November 24, 2023)
Dr William D’Alessandro, University of Oxford
AI Agency and Wellbeing Workshop
November 21-22, 2023
The Shutdown Problem: An AI Engineering Puzzle For Decision Theorists (November 17, 2023)
Dr Elliott Thornley, University of Oxford
Existential Risk from the Artificial Will (November 3, 2023)
Dr Dmitri Gallow, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
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