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