5th Annual Bovay Workshop on Engineering and Applied Ethics
On Tuesday April 26th, 2022, the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University will be hosting the Fifth Annual Bovay Workshop on Engineering and Applied Ethics. Bringing in scholars from around the country and this year’s conference will focus on A.I and the ethical engineering of complex systems. The conference will be in the YMCA Building, […]
On Tuesday April 26th, 2022, the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University will be hosting the Fifth Annual Bovay Workshop on Engineering and Applied Ethics. Bringing in scholars from around the country and this year’s conference will focus on A.I and the ethical engineering of complex systems. The conference will be in the YMCA Building, room 401.
Schedule of events:
8:30-9:00 Breakfast (provided)
9:00: Opening remarks: Dr. David Koepsell, Texas A&M University
9:15: Rune Nyrup, Cambridge University
“Towards an Ethics of Explainable Artificial Intelligence”
10:15: Jobst Landgrebe, State University of New York (SUNY), University at Buffalo
“The Political Philosophy of AI”
11:15-11:30: Coffee Break (Provided)
11:30: Barry Smith, State University of New York (SUNY), University at Buffalo
“The Machine Will”
12:30-2:00: Lunch break (provided)
2:00: Peter Zuk, Harvard Medical School
“Neural Data: Not for Sale”
3:00: Martin Peterson, Texas A&M University
“AI and Value Alignment: A Quantitative Measure”
3:50-4:15: Coffee Break
4:15: Austen McDougal, Stanford University
“Cheap Versus Significant Considerateness for Extended Minds”
5:05: Berit “Brit” Brogaard, University of Miami
“Human Brain Organoids: Scientific and Ethical Implications”
6:30: Dinner at Solt
A printable schedule of events with abstracts can be found here.
If you have any questions, please contact Gedalyahu Wittow at ged@tamu.edu.