Conference Programme

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 PT-AI 2021 Programme  
 DAY 1
(Monday 27.09.2021)
 
 Room A & Keynotes: Kelvin Room B: Decibel
ZOOM links  Meeting URL: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/68081761401?pwd=S1hzb3AyRHh3R2YxaHE1cDU2Ty9xQT09
Meeting ID: 680 8176 1401
Passcode: 538656
 Meeting URL: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/64144767943?pwd=S0k4VCsrMXhrd0dMOWE4a3RvczhXZz09
Meeting ID: 641 4476 7943
Passcode: 611225
09:30Registration & Coffee    
10:00Keynote 1 (room A) Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh U)  
10:30  “The Digital Basanos: AI and the Virtue and Violence of Truth-Telling”  
11:00Coffee    
  AEpistemology & TheoryBEthics
   [Chair: V. Müller] [Chair: I. Crnkovic]
11:30Papers A1/B1A1Alberto Termine & Alessandro Facchini (U Milano/IDSIA) Towards a Taxonomy of Pragmatic Opacity for the XAI PractitionerB1Olle Häggström (Chalmers U) Artificial general intelligence and the common sense argument
12:00Papers A2/B2A2Juan Duran (TU Delft) Trusting the output of black-box algorithms: A survery on computational reliabilismB2Michael Cannon (TU Eindhoven) An Enactive Approach to Value Alignment in Artificial Intelligence
12:30Papers A3/B3A3Tom Sterkenburg (LMU Munich) Undecidability in machine learning: What does it tell us?B3Leonhard Kerkeling (Ruhr U Bochum) Matthew Liao’s Approach of Ascribing Moral Status to AI Systems – Overview and Problems
13:00Lunch Break    
13:30Lunch Break    
14:00Keynote 2 (room A) Michael Levin (Tufts U)  
   “Intelligence beyond the brain: basal cognition of life in diverse problem spaces inspiration for AI”  
   [Chair: O. Häggström] [Chair: G. Dodig-Crnkovic]
15:00Papers A4/B4A4Hajo Greif (TU Warsaw) Models, Algorithms, and the Subjects of TransparencyB4Fabio Tollon (U Bielefeld) Unpredictable Futures: Why, and How, we are Responsible for AI
15:30Papers A5/B5A5Laura Crompton (U Vienna) The problem of AI influenceB5Lydia Farina (U Nottigham) Artificial Intelligence Systems, Responsibility and Agential Self-Awareness
16:00Coffee    
16:30Papers A6/B6A6Jiri Wiedermann & Jan van Leeuwen (CAS, Prague) Validating Non-trivial Semantic Properties of RobotsB6Andras Kornai (TU Budapest) Deception by default
17:00Papers A7/B7A7Alice Helliwell (U Kent) The Ethics of AI-Generated ArtworksB7Guido Loehr (TU Eindhoven) Robot rights, grounded
17:30     
19:00Dinner (self-paid) Radisson Blu “Riverside Hotel” at Lindholmen  
      
      
 DAY 2
(Tuesday 28.09.2021)
 
    
10:00Keynote 3 (room A) Virginia Dignum (Umeå U)  
   “Responsible AI: from principles to action”  
11:00Coffee    
  AEpistemology & TheoryBEthics
   [Chair: V. Müller] [Chair: O. Häggström]
11:30Papers A8/B8A8Oliver Buchholz (U Tübingen) A Means-End Account of Explainable Artificial IntelligenceB8Dan Weijers & Nick Munn (U Waikato) Human-AI Friendship: Rejecting the ‘appropriate sentimentality’ criterion
12:00Papers A9/B9A9Gordana Dodig Crnkovic (Chalmers U) Cognitive Architectures Based on Natural Info-ComputationB9Elinor Clark (U Hannover) Decentring the discoverer: Rethinking agent-centred accounts of scientific discovery in light of advances in AI
12:30Papers A10/B10A10Caterina Moruzzi (U Konstanz) Reaching Out-of-Distribution Generalization Through RobustnessB10Marcel Becker (Radboud U) Dignity in Digital Ethics
13:00Lunch Break    
13:30Lunch Break    
   [Chair: V. Müller] [Chair: G. Dodig-Crnkovic]
14:00Papers A11/B11A11Kaisa Kärki (U Helsinki) Autonomy of attentionB11Carina Prunkl (U Oxford) Is there a trade-off between human autonomy and system autonomy?
14:30Papers A12/B12A12Gualtiero Piccinini (U Missouri, St. Louis) Ontic Pancomputationalism and Computational StructuralismB12Ralf Stapelfeldt (FU Hagen) Is it likely that you are living in a computer simulation?
15:00Papers A13/B13A13Roman Yampolskiy (U Louisville) AI Risk SkepticismB13 
15:30Keynote 4 (room A) David Papineau (KCL, U London)  
   “A Philosopher’s Reactions to GPT-3”  
16:30End