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Announcing The First Philosophy of AI Asia Workshop (PAIA) in March 20-21
HKU is hosting the first annual PAIA workshop on March 20-21. We will be gathering philosophers of AI in Asia in order to foster greater collaboration between the different universities in Hong Kong and its surrounding regions. Speakers will include
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? What’s the point of benchmarks? What do benchmarks show us? Who is best positioned to answer these questions? Roundtable Discussion Prof John Hawthorne, University of Southern California Roundtable Discussion Prof Josh Dever, University of Texas Measuring Meaning and Materiality in Artificial Intelligence and Roundtable Discussion Jackie Kay, DeepMind Look Under the Hood! Benchmarking Artificial General Intelligence Prof Anandi Hattiangadi, Stockholm University Benchmarking Rationality in Large Language Models Prof Thomas Hofweber, The University of North Carolina Regulation by Benchmark Dr Peter Salib, The University of Houston Dr Simon Goldstein The University of Hong Kong Conditional Analysis of Model Abilities Jacqueline Harding, Stanford University Evaluating AI Systems for Moral Patienthood Rob Long, Center for AI Safety Evaluation-based Risk Assessment for Frontier Models Duan Yawen, Concordia AI Measuring Capabilities and Safety (Zoom) Dr Dan Hendrycks, Centre for AI Safety
AI Agency and Wellbeing Workshop (Nov 21-22)
HKU is organizing a workshop on the topic of AI Agency and Wellbeing, to be held at HKU on Nov 21-22, 2023. The workshop will explore the following questions: Speakers Include: Josh Dever (UT Austin) Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London and Deep Mind) Anand Vaidya (San Jose State University) Simon Goldstein (Australian Catholic University) Herman Cappelen (HKU) Adam Bradley (Lingnan) Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews) Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers) Nate Sharadin (HKU)
AI&H awarded funding!
Cappelen, with McKeever, has been awarded a grant from the University Grants Committee for the year 2023/4. The funded project, entitled ‘Can AIs and humans understand each other?’ aims to use results from philosophy of language and mind to create improved models of AI understanding, and to respond to prominent arguments that say systems like ChatGPT can never achieve human level-understanding.
AI Impacts Workshop, HKU, March 2024: info and cfp
The AI&Humanity Lab is organizing its first annual AI impacts workshop. The workshop will take place 14-15 March 2024 and aims to bring researchers from across the world and across disciplines to discuss the impact of AI on society, where this is all conceived very broadly. To that end, we are presenting a call for papers (to be given in person alongside a number of invited talks) concerning the near, medium, and long-term impacts of AI on politics, society, ethics, law, and economics. We invite all interested, whether within or outside philosophy, to consider submitting, and especially encourage those working in philosophy, law, economics, computer science, public policy, and politics. Accepted papers will be given in person at the University of Hong Kong. Airfare and accommodation will be covered, and we are happy to announce a prize for the paper deemed by the management committee to best further debate on this important topic. Interested parties should check out the workshop’s website, which is here.
MA in AI, ethics, and society at HKU
The faculty of arts at the University of Hong Kong is inviting applications for admission to a new one year masters course in the field of AI, ethics, and society. Students on the course will be able to attend the Lab’s events, including visitor speaking series, workshops, and conferences featuring leading scholars in AI from many disciplines. For more information, see here.
ChatGPT and other creative rivals: event in London
The Institute of Philosophy, SAS, and the AI&Humanity Lab at Hong Kong University co-organized a two-day event on LLMs: whether they are intelligent, whether they are authors, and issues concerning policy and the ethics of LLMs. For more information including a schedule and list of participants, see here.
Cappelen at IDS
On 26th April, Cappelen spoke at the Interdisciplinary Speaker Series at the Institute of Data Science. The event is co-hosted by AI&Humanity. See below for more information. A recording of the event is here.
Cappelen and Sterken at HKBU
Cappelen and Sterken recently gave talks at the conference Ethical and Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence: East-Asia and Beyond held in Hong Kong Baptist University. More details can be found here.