The purpose of this workshop is to explore how recent advances in AI technology intersect with epistemological topics and debates. The workshop is organized as part of the project The Epistemology of AI Systems, generously funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR).
To register for the workshop, please send an email at aleks.knoks@uni.lu by 10 June.
Programme
Thursday, 13 June
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9.35-9.45
Welcome & introduction by Thomas Raleigh
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9.45-11.00
Basil Müller (Bern): The social epistemology of LLM-testimony
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11.00-11.20
Coffee break
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11.20-12.35
Aleks Knoks (Luxembourg): Opacity, XAI, and idealizations in science
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12.35-14.00
Lunch break
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14.00-15.15
Grzegorz Gaszczyk (Warsaw) & Jędrzej Grodniewicz (Kraków): How to assess whether AI is capable of providing explanations?
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15.15-15.30
Coffee break
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15.30-16.45
Gloria Andrada (Lisbon): AI filters and self-perception
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16.45-17.00
Coffee break
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17.00-18.15
Claire Benn (Cambridge): Ethics must be seen to be done: Signalling and moral ambiguity
Friday, 14 June
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9.45-11.00
Jumbly Grindrod (Reading): Stochastic parrots or scientific models? LLMs as language users and objects of study
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11.00-11.20
Coffee break
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11.20-12.35
Gabriel Malagutti (Lisbon): What kind of knowledge can we acquire from conversational AI?
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12.35-14.00
Lunch break
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14.00-15.15
Rooke Christy (Johns Hopkins): Treating AI as knower or tool affects what we count as knowing
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15.15-15.30
Coffee break
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15.30-16.45
Aliya Dewey (Erlangen): Problems for cognitive modelling with AI
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16.45-17.00
Coffee break
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17.00-18.15
Manolo Martínez (Barcelona): Representational surfaces