Research Seminar

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

Contact: Ian Robertson (also Sascha B. Fink & Vincent C. Müller)

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 – Stephanie Evert (FAU), “Is ChatGPT intelligent? Understanding the foundations of conversational AI”
  • 27.11.24 – Claudio Castellini, FAU
  • 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 – Anthony Seaboyer, Royal Military College of Canada, (PAIR)
  • 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)

PAST SEMINARS

Summer Semester 2024

  • 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]

Winter Semester 2023/2024

  • 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”