Symposium 'Ecce Machina - Finding Humanity in an AI-Flooded World'
- Voor wie
- Alumni , Journalisten , Medewerkers , Privépersonen , Studenten
- Wanneer
- 14-05-2025 van 14:00 tot 18:00
- Waar
- Auditorium Vandenhove, Rozier 1, 9000 Ghent
- Voertaal
- Engels
- Door wie
- Department of Electronics and Information Systems - Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
- Contact
- tijl.debie@ugent.be
- Website
- https://www.meetup.com/ugentdss/events/307213535/
How do we preserve humanity in a world where even our social and emotional needs can seemingly be met with generative Artificial Intelligence?
At this junction where our social and emotional needs, societal problems such as loneliness, and employment shortages in social and creative roles, can seemingly be met with generative AI, we must pause and ask: which aspects of these capabilities represent progress, and which ones could amount to giving up the essence of our shared humanity?
In this symposium, speakers from computer science and AI, philosophy and psychology exchange their views on this question. Not to find hard answers or quick solutions, but to feed an overdue conversation about the extent to which we want AI to be a social entity in our lives.
Speakers:
- Tijl De Bie (Prof AI, Ghent University)
- Louis de Diesbach (Technology ethicist & BCG consultant, author of Bonjour ChatGPT)
- Elly Konijn (Prof Media Psychology, VU Amsterdam)
- Sigrid Sterckx (Prof Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy, Ghent University)
- Hannu Toivonen (Prof Computer Science, University of Helsinki, and Francqui Intl Prof at VUB, KUL, UA, Ghent University, UCL)