Programme

The following is the final program for the event. For poster presenters, please note that the maximum poster size is A0 = 84.1× 118.9 cm. 

For abstracts for keynotes, talks, and posters, please click the links on the titles of each section. For example, click “Lunch Break & Posters I” to access the abstracts for the first session of posters.

All keynotes and sessions in the left column (A, C, E, G) are upstairs and all sessions in the right column (B, D, F, H) are downstairs.

 15-Dec-23
   
10:00–11:00Registration & Coffee
   
11:00–12:30Keynote A(chair: Vincent Müller)
 Generative AI’s Gappiness: Meaningfulness, Authorship, and
the Credit-Blame Asymmetry
 Sven Nyholm
 Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
 LMU Munich
   
12:30–13:30Lunch Break & Posters I
 Désirée Martin and Michael W. SchmidtDaniel Bracker et al.
 Discrepancies Between AI Regulation and Ethics: The case of well-being and beneficenceAuthorship & ChatGPT
 Eloise SoulierFatemeh Amirkhani et al.
 Should we talk about machine agency?Psychotherapist Bots: Transference and Countertransference Issues
 Céline Budding and Carlos ZednikBarnaby Crook
 Does Explainable AI Need Cognitive Models?Risks Deriving from the Agential Profiles of Modern AI Systems
 Alex Wiegmann et al. 
 Humans’ and GPT-4’s judgments about lying and falsity in borderline cases across six languages and cultures 
  
13:30–15:30Presentations A
 Session A(chair: John Dorsch)Session B(chair: Peter Königs)
 Marcin RabizaJojanneke Drogt et al.
 Mechanistic Explanatory Strategy for Deep LearningAligning Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Medical Expertise: A Conceptual Understanding of Expert Practices to Foster Ethical AI Integration
 Kristian G. BarmanAlexander Tolbert
 Inference to the Best Explanation in Explainable AIAlgorithms, Justice, and the Urban Ghetto
 Ben MacintoshPia-Zoe Hahne
 Skepticism about isolated explanations of Large Language ModelsInvisible Labour: Who Keeps the Algorithm Running?
 Thomas Raleigh & Aleks Knoks 
 Opacity, explainability, and the merits of distorting idealizations 
   
15:30–16:00Coffee Break & Posters I
 (same posters: see above)
  
15:45–16:30Inaugural Meeting
 Society for Philosophy & AI (SPAI)(attendance open to all conference participants)
   
16:30–18:00Presentations B
 Session C(chair: Floriana Ferro)Session D(chair: Avigail Ferdman)
 Sven EichholtzJan-Hendrik Heinrichs
 How AI Will Not Learn Reference: A Critique Of Cross-Modal Vector Space AlignmentAMAs, function creep and moral overburdening
 Céline BuddingPhillip Honenberger
 What do large language models know? Tacit knowledge as a potential causal-explanatory structureFairness in AI/ML Systems: An Integrative Ethics Approach
 Mitchell Green and Jan MichelArzu Formánek
 What Robots Could Do with WordsIs it wrong to kick Kickable 3.0? An affordance based approach to ethics of human-robot interaction
   
18:00–19:30Keynote B(chair: Aliya Dewey)
 Intentional and mechanistic explanations in the context of AI
 Marta Halina
 University Associate Professor of Philosophy of Cognitive Science
 University of Cambridge
   
19:30–21:00Dinner (Kreuz+Quer)
   
 16-Dec-23
   
09:15–10:30Keynote C(chair: Guido Löhr)
 Should we trust (or care about) what ChatGPT tells us about itself?
 Herman Cappelen
 Chair Professor of Philosophy
 University of Hong Kong
   
10:30–11:00Coffee Break & Posters II
 Michael CannonKanyu Wang
 The Arc and the Circle: Cognitivist and Post-Cognitivist Kinds of IntelligenceUncertainty, awareness, and why now is not the right time to prioritise AI existential risk
 Markus RütherRenee Ye
 Why care about sustainable AI? Some thoughts from the debate on meaning in lifeAmeliorating Anthropocentrism: New Directions for Artificial Consciousness
 Robert William ClowesRoman Krzanowski
 Thinking Creating and Feeling with Generative AI: Incorporating AI in our Cognitive and Affective Lives as Extended Minds and Virtual PersonalitiesHuman Nature and Artificial Intelligence: Sizing the Gap
 Maria Federica Norelli et al.Māris Kūlis
 Data, Phenomena and Models in Machine LearningLost in Translation: The Trap of Bad Metaphors in AI’s Deceptive Simplicity
 Johannes BrinzJumbly Grindrod
 Virtuality and Reality: The Simulation-Replication Distinction and its Implications for AITransformer architectures and the radical contextualism debate
 Laura Haaber Ihle and Annika M. SchoeneMartha Kunicki
 Ethics Guidelines for AI-based Suicide Prevention ToolsCo-Creativity with Artificial Intelligence
  
11:00–13:00Presentations C
 Session E(chair: Björn Lundgren)Session F(chair: Luise Müller)
 Giacomo Figà TalamancaPeter Königs
 From AI to Octopi and Back: Why AI Systems Might Look Like (but Should Not Be Seen) as AgentsNegativity Bias in AI Ethics and the Case for AI Optimism
 Charles RathkopfFloriana Ferro
 Do LLMs Believe?The RV Continuum as Flesh: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Mixed Reality
 Kris GoffinAvigail Ferdman
 Emotion Recognition Software, Bias and Emotional ComplexityAI and Deskilling of Human Capacities
 Nicolas KuskeJohn Dorsch
 Consciousness in Artificial Systems: Bridging Sensorimotor Theory and Global Workspace in In-Silico ModelsExplainable AI in Automated Decision Support Systems: Reasons, Counterfactuals, and Model Confidence
   
13:00–14:00Lunch Break & Posters II
 (same posters: see above)
   
14:00–16:00Presentations D
 Session G(chair: Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs)Session H(chair: Charles Rathkopf)
 Katsunori Miyahara and Hayate ShimizuNikhil Mahant
 Discerning genuine and artificial sociality: a technomoral virtue to live with chatbotsIs AI deception deception?
 Luise MüllerNathaniel Gan
 Generative AI and Art as a Social PracticeCan AI systems imagine? A conceptual engineering perspective
 Pierre Saint-GermierGuido Löhr
 “I sing the body algorithmic” Machine Learning and Embodiment in Human-Machine collective music-makingConceptual engineering as a method in the philosophy of AI
 Alice HelliwellBradley Allen
 Creativity, Agency, and AIConceptual Engineering Using Large Language Models
   
16:00–17:15Keynote D(chair: Leonard Dung)
 Language, Consciousness, Justice & AI regulation
 Joanna Bryson
 Professor of Ethics and Technology
 Centre for Digital Governance
 Hertie School, Berlin