Join us every Monday...

(organized by M. Gorr)

• 13.04.26
  Samuela Marchiori (TU Delft): Conceptual disruption in AI governance
• 20.04.26
  Joshua Hatherley (University of Copenhagen): Postmortem avatars in grief therapy: Prospects, ethics, and governance 
• 27.04.26
  Carlos Zednik (TU Eindhoven): Deep Alignment and a Cognitive Science for the Artificial Mind
• 04.05.26
  Philip Haueis (University of Bielefeld): AI as Metabolic Technology? 
• 11.05.26.
  Markus Pantsar (RWTH Aachen): Towards an epistemology of artificial mathematical reasoning 
• 18.05.25
  Hadeel Naeem (PAIR): Recognising pain
• 25.05.26
  public holiday
• 01.06.26
  rescheduled to June 29
• 08.06.26
  Erasmus Mayr (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg): Adaptive Abilities and the Value of Knowledge
• 15.06.26
  Sabrina Coninx (Vrije University Amsterdam): Rethinking Disruptive Technologies: The Benefits, Harms, and Injustices of Human Niche Construction (online)
• 22.06.26
  Leonard Dung (Ruhr-University Bochum): Roleplay in language models: A challenge for AI agency and deception? 
• 29.06.26
  Mona Simion (Oxford University): Artificial Epistemic Agency (online)

(organized by M. Gorr)

• 15.10.25
  Linus T. Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong | PAIR Visiting Fellow): Dynamic Value Alignment: Enhancing User Autonomy Through Multiagent, Moral Foundations Theoretical Framework
• 22.10.25
  A. Seaboyer (PAIR): Challenges of Ethical AI-enabled Government Influence Operations
• 29.10.25
  R. Ye (Ruhr University Bochum | PAIR Visiting Fellow): Measuring Artificial Sentience
• 05.11.25
  I. Titz (Ruhr University Bochum) & B. Lundgren (PAIR): LLMs, Autonomy, and Narrative
• 12.11.25
  T. Sterkenburg (LMU Munich | PAIR Visiting Fellow): Values in machine learning: What follows from underdetermination?
• 19.11.25
  A. Kirkeby-Hinrup (Lund University | PAIR Visiting Fellow): What If Consciousness Can Be Generated in More Than One Way?
• 26.11.25
  Silvia Milano (LMU Munich & University of Exeter): AI and relationship norms
• 03.12.25
  G. Howdle (Utrecht University): Relational Turn: New Approach or Change of Topic?
• 10.12.25
  NN: From AI Consciousness to Artificial Consciousness: Tracing a Philosophical and Empirical Trajectory
• 17.12.25
  E. Catena (PAIR): The Impact of Personalized AI on Personal Autonomy
• [Christmas Break]
• 14.01.26
  Cancelled: M. Facchin (University of Antwerp): The Hard Problem of Vehicles
• 21.01.26
  R. Waelen (Bonn University): Towards a Theory of Recognition From Artificial Others
• 28.01.26 [PAIR Writing Retreat]
• 04.02.26
  L. Kob (OVGU Magdeburg): Substrate-Hybrid Systems in the Context of Conscious AI

(organised by S. Fink, I. Jaja, & H. Naeem)

• 23.04.25 – [SENSOR conference, Erlangen]
• 30.04.25 – Q. Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences | PAIR Visiting Fellow): The Threat of Over-conceptualization
• 07.05.25 – M. Mahlberg (Erlangen): Climate stories – why language matters
• 14.05.25 – J. Hauser (Barcelona | PAIR Visiting Fellow): AI am I: AI Personal Assistants and the Self
• 21.05.25 – A. Mannino (Berkeley): Suffering, Desire, and Moral Status in AI Systems
• 28.05.25 – S. B. Fink (PAIR/Glasgow): Emerging Technologies and their Epistemic Risks
• 04.06.25 – A. Helliwell (Northeastern | PAIR Visiting Fellow): AI Art and Responsibility
• 11.06.25 – S. Nyholm (Munich): The Ethics of AI Agents: Advanced AI Assistants, the “Next Big Thing” in AI Ethics?
• 18.06.25 – D. Shottenkirk (CUNY/Brooklyn College | PAIR Visiting Fellow): Mournful Angels: AI in artmaking and the particularities of perception
• 25.06.25 – David Gray (University of Memphis|PAIR Visiting Fellow): If we gain knowledge from Generative AI, how do the outputs have to be produced?
• 02.07.25 – [IACAP, Twente & Covey Prize]
• 09.07.25 – M. Gorr (PAIR): Considering The Interests of Intelligent Machines
• 16.07.25 – C. Rathkopf (Jülich): Latent Competence in LLMs
• 23.07.25 – Ian Robertson (PAIR): AI, Trust & Expertise

(organised by I. Robertson)

• 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 Erlangen), “Is ChatGPT intelligent? Understanding the foundations of conversational AI”
• 27.11.24 – Claudio Castellini (FAU Erlangen), “Making Artificial Intelligence (really) intelligent?”
• 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, (PAIR & Royal Military College of Canada) “Iranian AI-Enabled Information Exploitation”
• [Winter break]
• 15.01.25 – Jonne Maas (U Delft), “Freedom in the Digital Age: Designing for Non-Domination”
• 22.01.25 – Kritika Maheshwari (U Delft) “Algorithmic deep deference & the right to human decision”
• 29.01.25 – Max Hellrigel-Holderbaum (PAIR),  “Beyond Questionnaire-Style Assessments: Rethinking AI Safety Benchmarks”
• 05.02.25 – Wanja Wiese (RU Bochum) “Artificial Consciousness: criteria for the absence of phenomenal consciousness”

• 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”