Both, Between, Beyond: Ethics and Epistemology of AI
september 24 - 12:30 - september 26 - 14:30
Mondai | House of AI is happy to host the coming workshop on the Ethics and Epistemology of AI: Both, Between, Beyond
(De voertaal van dit evenement is Engels – this event will be held in English)
General Programme
Wednesday Sept, 24th
12:30 Welcome
13:00 – 17:30 Keynote and Talks
17:30 Networking Drinks
Thursday Sept, 25th
10.15 Welcome
10.30 – 16.00 Keynotes and Talks
18:00 Dinner
Friday Sept, 26th
09.45 Welcome
10.00 Keynote and Talks
14.30 End
This workshop focuses on the interplay between epistemological and ethical questions arising with the use of AI systems. So far, central epistemologically and ethically relevant aspects pertaining to these technologies have been largely analyzed in their singularity. For example, epistemic limitations of these systems, such as their opacity, have been the center of the epistemological debate but have only been marginally addressed in ethical studies. On the other hand, issues of responsibility, fairness, and privacy, among others, have received considerable attention in discussions on the ethics of AI. However, even though some efforts are present in the literature to bring these two dimensions together (Russo et al., 2023; Pozzi and Durán, 2024), more needs to be said to tackle relevant and philosophically interesting issues that fall in their intersection.
Against this background, this workshop aims to bring together scholars working on topics at the intersection between the ethics and epistemology of AI, focusing on different philosophical traditions and perspectives.
Programme (updated!)
Wednesday September 24th
12.30 – 13.00 Welcome and walk-in
13.00 – 14.00 Keynote by Claus Beisbart: “AI and Non-Epistemic Values. Insights from the Debate on Science and Values”
14.00 – 14.20 Break
14.20 – 15.00 Talk by Tuğba Yoldaş: “Virtue Epistemology and Responsible Knowing with Generative AI”
15.00 – 15.40 Talk by Anna Smadjor and Yael Friedman: “Epistemological and Ethical Dimensions of Synthetic Data for Trustworthy AI”
15.40 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 16.40 Talk by Giacomo Figà Talamanca and Niel Conradie: “The Significance of Vulnerability for being Trustworthy about AI”
From 17.30 Informal gathering and drinks!
Thursday September 25th
10.15 – 10.30 Walk-in
10.30 – 11.10 Talk by Shaoyu Han: “Accidental Hate Speech and the Extended Mind: Rethinking Epistemic Responsibility in AI-Generated Content”
11.10 – 11.50 Talk by Johan Largo. Human-AI interaction, epistemic credit and moral responsibility
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Break
13.00 – 13.40 Talk by Hatice Tülün: “The Invisible Third: The Ethical and Epistemic Role of Recommender Systems in Mediated Social Interactions”
13.40 – 14.20 Talk by Karim Barakat: “Algorithmic Censorship and the Public Sphere”
14.20 – 14.40 Break
14.40 – 15.40 Keynote by Eva Schmidt: “Engineering a Concept of AI Trustworthiness as Competence and Character”
15.40 – 16.00 Coffee
From 18.30 Dinner
Friday September 26th
09.45 – 10.00 Walk-in
10.00 – 10.40 Talk by Joshua Hatherley: “Federation Opacity and the Promise of Federated Learning in Healthcare”
10.40 – 11.20 Talk by Omkar Chattar: “What Is Phantom Trust? Ontology and Epistemology in AI Reliance”
11.20 – 11.40 Break
11.40 – 12.20 Talk by Eric Owens: “On Machines and Medical Schools: Machine Learning, Epistemic Institutions and the Physician”
12.20 – 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 – 14.30 Keynote by Karin Jongsma and Megan Milota: “Ethics, Epistemology and Praxis: Making AI’s Impact on the Diagnostic Workflow Visible”
14.30 Goodbye
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