Thursday, September 19 & Friday, September 20, 2024

8:30 AM

Coffee

ECC Atrium

9 AM

Session One

Thursday

  • ChatGPT Does Not Mean Anything, Yet
    ECC 201 | Myungjun Kim
    Chair: Charlie Huenemann
  • Semantic, Technical, and Normative Tangles: Three Levels of Disagreement about AI
    ECC 207 | Mike Zahorec
    Chair: Mike Ashfield

Friday

  • Rewriting Relationships: AI and Human Emotional Connections
    ECC 207 | Briana Bowen

10 AM

Session Two

Thursday

  • From Virtual Friends to AI Friends: Is it Possible to be an Aristotelian friend with AI?
    ECC 201 | Daniel Grasso
    Chair: Greg Peterson
  • Transparency needed for Epistemic Justification of Opaque AI: Depends if it's treated like Agent or Tool
    ECC 207 | Rooke Christy
    Chair: Mike Zahorec

Friday

  • AI and the Ends of Work
    ECC 201 | Gregory Peterson
    Chair: Harrison Kleiner
  • Individual Responsibility for the Problem of Fake News
    ECC 207 | Zhaoqi Hu
    Chair: Jared Colton

11 AM

Session Three

Thursday

  • Moral Complexity in Traffic: The ADC Model for Automated Vehicle Decision-making
    ECC 201 | Dario Cecchini
    Chair: Daniel Grasso
  • Autonomy in Algorithms?
    ECC 207 | Jack Harris
    Chair: Charlie Huenemann

Friday

  • Should I Use ChatGPT to Write My Papers?
    ECC 201 | Clinton Castro & Tim Aylsworth
    Chair: Nicole Allen
  • ML Assistance, Epistemic Virtues, and Judicial Decision-making
    ECC 207 | David Tamez
    Chair: Alex Barrientos

12 PM

Light Refreshments

ECC Atrium

1:15 PM

Session Four

Thursday

Plenary Speaker

  • Fairness and Randomness in Algorithmic Systems
    ECC 207 | Kathleen Creel, Northeastern University
    Chair: Brittany Gentry

Friday

Plenary Speaker

  • Auto-correct: Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics and the Driverless Car
    ECC 207 | Maya Indira Ganesh, Cambridge
    Chair: Harrison Kleiner

2:40 PM

Session Five

Thursday

  • When is AI Development Irresponsible? Engineering Role Responsibilities and Responsible Innovation
    ECC 201 | Kyle Yrigoyen
    Chair: Rachel Robison-Greene
  • An Introduction to the Boundaries on AI in the U.S. Department of Defense
    ECC 207 | Matthew Lund

Friday

  • Parrots, Penguins, and Putnam’s Ants: Chatbots and the Illocutionary Backstop
    ECC 201 | Anthony Holdier
    Chair: Rachel Robison-Greene
  • Responsible AI
    ECC 207 | Caleb Wilkinson (AWS)

3:40 PM

Session Six

Thursday

  • Does Using Synthetic Data Violate Any Assumptions Underlying the Scientific Method?
    ECC 201 | Patrick Garvan
    Chair: Brad Hall
  • AI Governance in the Global South: Lessons from Latin America
    ECC 207 | Jean Garcia-Periche (GENIA)

Friday

Plenary Speaker

  • Beyond AI Ethics: Axiology for a Future with AI
    ECC 207 | Ramón Alvarado, University of Oregon
    Chair: Michael Otteson

4:30 PM

Snack Break

ECC Atrium

5 PM

Keynote

Thursday

  • Navigating the Complexities of AI and Digital Governance: A 5W1H Framework
    ECC 207 | Matthew Liao, NYU
    Chair: Brittany Gentry

Friday

  • AI and Close Personal Relationships
    ECC 207 | John Symons, U of Kansas
    Chair: Michael Otteson

6:30 PM

Dinner

Dinner on your own