Past Events


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Bella Pei Wang Lecture: "Against AI Shamanism: A Confucian Critique of Ghostbots"


WIP Meeting: Jocelyn Maclure

AI Ethics and Governance: Why the Value-Alignment Project is Misguided at RETRAI


WIP Meeting: Chris Howard, Jocelyn Maclure & Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre

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Critical Thinking and Intellectual Humility

A Roadmap for the Digital Age


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Political Philosophy for a Better World: Confronting the Polycrisis

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Canadian Association for the Philosophy of AI


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Jeff Sebo Lecture: Next Steps for AI Welfare Research and Policy

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EDI et la démocratie à l’ère de la post-vérité


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Ethics And Technology Roundtable: The Age Of Algorithm

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A Conversation on Public Philosophy with Joseph Heath


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The Enforcement Threshold Approach to Harm Reduction

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AI, Explainability and Epistemic Dependence


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Are You Even a Person?

LLMs and Agentic Distrust

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The Ethic of Griefbots LLMs and the Digital Afterlife


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Workshop on AI and the philosophy of grief

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Grief and Memory in Radically Extended Lives


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AI, Public Reason and the Right to Explanation

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Enculturating ML models: Why we need 'Abundant Intelligences'


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Philosophie de l'IA et humanisme démocratique

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On the Implausibility of Moral Machines

AI, Moral Agency and the Cognitive Role of Emotions


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Can chatGPT be your friend?

Join us for a conversation on AI companionship

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AI and Public Reason.

Notes on the Explainability Debate


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Grand Rendez-vous CPA 2025

L’intelligence artificielle et ses enjeux éthiques

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Workshop - The Ethics of Griefbots

LLMs, Generative Ghosts, and Wellbeing


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Horizons démocratiques

Journée de réflexion sur l’érosion des normes et des institutions démocratiques

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Why AI is not Revolutionizing Work and Productivity


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McGill Talks AI: Navigating the Future Together

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Reading Group Discussion

Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead?


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Should we worry about the welfare of AI?

Roundtable with Heather Alexander, Jonathan Simon and Jocelyn Maclure

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Work-in-Progress Session with Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre

Can AI Systems Hold Wrongful Beliefs? Doxastic Wrongs in Machine Reasoning


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La philosophie et la crise démocratique

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The Importance of Meaningful Human Control Over AI

Third World Summit of the Committees of the Future, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Senate of the Republic of Chile


Quebec City town square

La délibération démocratique à l’ère numérique

Assemblée nationale du Québec

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La IA y el futuro de la igualdad social: Congresso Futuro


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Echo Chambers and the Public Reason Crisis

University of Bonn

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White Paper Launch and Workshop

General Ethical Requirements for AI Certification, University of Bonn


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Intelligence artificielle : promesses, écueils et réalités d’une révolution toute sauf tranquille

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AI and (Dis)Respect for Persons: When and Why are Algorithmic Generalizations Morally Wrong?

Hugo Cossette-Lefèbvre & Jocelyn Maclure - MILA Interdisciplinary Reading Group on Responsible AI


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Life and Work of Charles Taylor: A Tribute

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Dave Binkley Memorial Lecture: Prof. Jocelyn Maclure


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Regina Rini Conference: Science: the Intellectual Leviathan

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Comparing the Human Mind and Deep Neural Networks

Intelligence, Bounded Rationality and Epistemic Dependence


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RGHNV

Discussion on Gabriel & Manzini's paper about the ethics of advanced AI assistants

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Acfas : L’encadrement de l’intelligence artificielle

Enjeux éthiques, techniques, juridiques et perspectives futures


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Ethics and AI- Preparatory Webinar

2024 International Women & Justice Summit, Women and Democracy Association (KADEM)

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Big Thinking at Congress


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Ruth Richler Memorial Lecture

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The Epistemology and Ethics of LLMs


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Keynote

Liberté d'expression et la démocratie

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Toward an Ethical Use of AI for Psychosocial Support


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AI Within the Limits of Public Reason

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RSC Dialogues: Freedom of Expression


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Ignacio Cofone (Law, McGill University)

The Privacy Fallacy. Harm and Power in the Information Economy

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Tom Parr (University of Warwick)

Frustration at Work: The Case for Subsidizing Career Switching


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Jocelyn Maclure & Alexis Morin-Martel

AI Ethics' Institutional Turn (Work-in-Progress Session)


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Work-in-Progress Session: In Defense of Timidity

Effective Altruism and Longtermism

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Aarhus University Workshop

When and Why are Algorithmic Generalizations Morally Wrong? AI, Negligence, and (Dis)Respect for Individual Moral Agency


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University of Bonn

AI Ethics: A Deflationary yet Cautionary View

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University of Bonn

AI, Extended Cognition and Social Reasoning


UQAM campus in the fall

UQAM—Hugues Leblanc 2023 Conferences

Science et démocratie

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Being Wrong in the Digital Age


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IRPP

Qui a compétence sur l’intelligence artificielle?

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Pop Montreal

Do Androids Dream of Electronic Music? Artificial Intelligence and the Music Industry


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OBVIA Conference - Discussion

Anticipating AI's Major Risks for Society

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OBVIA

La création assistée par l'IA : Défis et enjeux éthiques


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Julien da Silva

Looking the Part: The AI Zombie Problem and the Anti-Turning Test

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Alexis Morin-Martel

Le problème de la sous-détermination des principes en éthique de l’IA


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Alexis Morin-Martel

Machine Learning in Bail Decisions and Judges' Trustworthiness


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Resonance, Acceleration and Alienation

The Desire for Control and the Uncontrollability of the World

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Reality+

Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy


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AI's Fairness Problem

Understanding Wrongful Discrimination in the Context of Automated Decision-Making

Karina Vold presenting to a university classroom

Learning from Machines

Using Artificial Intelligence as Scaffolding for Human Learning


Simone Chambers presenting with Jocelyn Maclure sitting next to her

Wrecking the Public Sphere

New-Authoritarians and the Digital Attack on Pluralism and Truth

Jocelyn Maclure and Markus Gabriel sitting at a table in front of classroom

Being Human in the Digital Age

On Human and Artificial Intelligence


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