The AG-Eindhoven is organizing a full-day symposium on Saturday, July 13, 2024 on the role of artificial intelligence in society. One of the three speakers they have invited includes UT Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Dr. Julia Hermann.
Dr. Hermann's talk will be (in Dutch) on "Artificial intelligence – a socially disruptive technology".
Abstract: ChatGPT, Alexa, Apple Watch – we encounter artificial intelligence everywhere. Smart systems tell us how we slept, make medical diagnoses, write poems and assess job applications. Philosophers of technology classify artificial intelligence as a socially disruptive technology, because it not only changes our daily lives but raises fundamental questions and creates uncertainty. What distinguishes a human from an intelligent system? Can a machine be creative? Is a computer-generated painting art? Can we ascribe moral responsibility to intelligent machines? Can you be friends with a robot? Using examples, I show how artificial intelligence is disrupting our fundamental values and concepts and I also discuss how individuals and societies can respond to this.
Bio: Julia Hermann is a university lecturer in philosophy and ethics of technology at the University of Twente. She is also a member of the management board of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies research program and vice-chairman of the Association of Ethicists in the Netherlands . She studied philosophy and political science at Heidelberg University and obtained her PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) with a thesis on moral justification. Julia has worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Maastricht, Utrecht and Eindhoven. Her current research focuses on socially disruptive technologies, techno-moral change and methods for transdisciplinary research. She has written articles and chapters on moral progress, techno-moral revolutions and the artificial womb, among others, and is the author of the book On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice: A Wittgensteinian Perspective
For more information: https://ag-eindhoven.nl/?view=article&id=286
