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Social Cognition and Agency: Being Human in the Age of AI

This workshop is dedicated to the exploration of social cognition and agency in the age of artificial intelligence. Invited scholars will provide insights and develop important questions around the central theme: Being Human in the age of AI


Workshop Agenda

Webinar ID:

816 7180 3224

Passcode: 945170
Sep 23Day 1 of Workshop
9 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks and Workshop Overview - David Tamez and Syed AbuMusab

  • Introduction to the workshop's goals and objectives.
  • Overview of the day's agenda.
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Session 1 - Caroline Arruda, Tulane University

Title: TBA

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Session 2 - Sven Nyholm, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München

Title: Personalized Imitation Games: Permissibility, Desirability, and the Ethics of Digital Duplicates

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Lunch Break
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Session 3 - Eric Schwitzgebel, UC Riverside

Title: Against Creating Happy AI Servants and Slaves
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Session 4 - Jessica Morley, Yale

Title: Algorithmic clinical decision support software, epistemic certainty, & physician/patient autonomy
2:30pm

Adjourn Day 1

  • Closing remarks
  • Day 2 Agenda
Sep. 24Day 2 of Workshop
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Day Opening Remarks

  • Brief debrief of day 1, and welcome new attendees
  • Announce Day 2 Agenda
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Session 1 - David Tamez, University of Kansas (I2S)

Title: Law, Social Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Session 2 - Joshua Rust, Stetson University

Title: Minimal Agency
11:30 a.m - 12:30 p.m

Lunch Break

12:30 p.m. - 1:30pm

Session 3 - Anna Strasser, founder of DenkWerkstatt Berlin

Title: Inbetween Tools and Agents

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m

Session 4 - Cameron Buckner, University of Florida

Title: How to model empathy in AI: Empathy as the flexible navigation of social space

2:30 p.m.

Adjourn Day 2

  • Closing remarks