Research Seminar

Our {PAIR} Research Seminar is run weekly in the semester. Everybody who is interested and not disruptive is welcome.

ZOOM Link https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/66862286940
Meeting-ID: 668 6228 6940 (Password required)

(Wednesdays 13:15-14:45, PAIR Lab, Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, 03.01)

Winter Semester 2024/2025

16.10.24 – Björn A. Lundgren (PAIR), “What is informational autonomy?”
23.10.24 – Elena Walsh (U Wollongong), “Does a face speak for itself? Emotion recognition technologies and explainable AI”
30.10.24 – Eleonora Catena (PAIR), “Generative AI and Human Autonomy: Autonomy Gaps”
06.11.24 – Ibifuro R. Jaja (PAIR), “Surveillance Capitalism, the Shift to the Subscription Model: The Trade-offs”
13.11.24 – Hadeel Naeem (PAIR), “Bridging Gaps”
20.11.24 – TBA
27.11.24 – Stephanie Evert (FAU), “Is ChatGPT intelligent? Understanding the foundations of conversational AI”
04.12.24 – Gregor Schöner (RU Bochum), “How higher cognition may emerge from the dynamics of strongly interacting neural populations”
11.12.24 – Brandon Ashby (PAIR), “The Laws of Appearance and the Syntax of Consciousness”
18.12.24 – TBA
25.12.24 – [Christmas]
01.01.25 – [New Year]
08.01.25 – [Winter break]
15.01.25 – Jonne Maas (U Delft)
22.01.25 – Kritika Maheshwari (U Delft)
29.01.25 – Max Hellrigel-Holderbaum (PAIR), “AI Alignment and the Problem of Manipulation”
05.02.25 – Wanja Wiese (RU Bochum)

17.04.24 – Eleonora Catena, V. G. Santucci, & L. Tummolini, “Human autonomy with AI in the loop”
24.04.24 – [cancelled for Philosophy of Science @ Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik]
01.05.24 – [Labour Day]
08.05.24 – Hayate Shimizu (Hokkaido University), “Respect for the human-robot relationship”
15.05.24 – Chris De Weerd & Leonard Dung, “Evolutionary approaches to consciousness reconsidered”
22.05.24 – Ian Robertson, “Artificial intelligence and representation”
29.05.24 – Andreas K. Maier (FAU, Informatik) – AI Singularity (indicative text here)
05.06.24 – Sascha Benjamin Fink, “Structural approaches to consciousness: An overview”
12.06.24 – Anthony Seaboyer, “Ethical AI-enabled influence operations”
19.06.24 – Richard Matschke, “Addressing Existential Risks through Education”
26.06.24 – Gerhard Ernst (FAU, Philosophie), “Two kinds of rationality“
03.07.24 – Vincent C. Müller, “The problem of method for AI ethics: A minimal ethics for a universal technology”
10.07.24 – Oleg Vasilchenko, “Ethnography of AI in law”
17.07.24 – Bernhard Kainz (FAU, AIBE), “Diagnosing the Diagnosers: Challenging the Role of Machine Learning in Modern Medicine” [postponed]

18.10.23 – V. Müller & PAIR, “AI Philosophy”
25.10.23 – [cancelled]
01.11.23 – [All Saints’/Allerheiligen]
08.11.23 – [A. Dewey & L. Dung Presentations @ AIBE Research Workshop: room 03.17]
15.11.23 – L. Dung, AI agency
22.11.23 – [postponed]
29.11.23 – [cancelled]
06.12.23 – A. Dewey, task-optimised modelling
13.12.23 – V. Müller, “How to do AI ethics”
20.12.23 – [PhAI 2023]
27.12.23 – [Christmas]
03.01.24 – [Christmas]
10.01.24 – [PAIR retreat Waischenfeld]
17.01.24 – L. Dung & F. Kamerer, “Illusionism and non-human consciousness research”
24.01.24 – A. Dewey, “Why cognition can’t be reverse engineered”
31.01.24 – B. Lundgren, “Ethics of autonomous vehicles”
07.02.24 – M. Hellrigel-Holderbaum, “A basic account of AI agency”