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UNC Symposium on AI and Society
April 24 - April 25
Professor Mohit Bansal (Department of Computer Science) and Professor Thomas Hofweber (Department of Philosophy) invite researchers to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and philosophy at the Symposium on AI and Society, held Thursday, April 25 and Friday, April 26. This event features discussions on the impact of AI on society, including topics such as ethical and moral AI, trustworthy and interpretable Large Language Models (LLMs), and social intelligence, led by experts across disciplines including computer science, philosophy, cognitive science, psychology and data science.
Program:
Thursday, April 25
9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome (Bansal, Hofweber)
9:15 – 10:30 | Josh Dever (UT Austin) “(When) Is It What’s On The Inside That Counts? Balancing Internalist and Externalist Considerations in LLM Metasemantics”
10:30 -10:45 | Break
10:45 -12:00 | Munindar P. Singh (NC State) “New Models for Trustworthy AI, Norm Deviation, and Consent in Responsible Autonomy”
12:00 – 2:00 | Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:15 | Jana Schaich Borg and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke) “Moral AI and How We Get There”
3:15 – 3:30 | Break
3:30 – 4:45 | Bo Li (Chicago) “Risk Assessment, Safety Alignment, and Guardrails for Generative Models”
Friday, April 26
9:15 – 10:30 | Maarten Sap (CMU) “Artificial Social Intelligence? On the challenges of Socially Aware and Ethically informed LLMs”
10:30 – 10:45 | Break
10:45 – 12:00 | Peter Hase (UNC) “Toward Safe LLMs: Interpretability, Model Editing, and Scalable Oversight”
12:00 – 2:15 | Lunch Break
2:15 – 3:30 | Kathleen Creel (Northeastern) “Algorithmic Monoculture and the Ethics of Systemic Exclusion”
3:30 – 3:45 | Break
3:45 – 5:00 | Brenden Lake (NYU) “Addressing two classic debates in cognitive science with AI”