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Artificial intelligence

Philosophical Days
Thursday, 05.10. - Saturday, 07.10.2023
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in many areas of society today: from self-driving cars and medical technology to works of art created by artificial intelligence. Philosophy is also intensively involved in these debates. This involves, for example, a philosophical understanding of this new technology or epistemological questions about its explainability. The Philosophical Days aim to address precisely these questions and, above all, shed light on the practical and philosophical dimension of dealing with AI systems.

Special note:

The lecture by Prof Dr Benjamin Rathgeber can be followed as a livestream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KatholischeAkademieinBayern/streams

Programme of the event:

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in many areas of society today: from self-driving cars and medical technology to works of art created by artificial intelligence. In all these fields, the new technologies are shaping the way people live together, changing learning processes and even our perception of reality as such. Some even talk of AI systems (eventually) having a consciousness or a soul. In any case, they can already speak, think or sing like humans, and philosophy is also intensively involved in these debates. This involves, for example, a philosophical understanding of this new technology or epistemological questions about its explainability. The difference between humans and machines is repeatedly emphasised, also against a historical background. Practical philosophers, on the other hand, discuss how exactly this relationship should be interpreted, whether it makes sense to speak of trust in AI or how new practices at the interface between human behaviour and AI can be described and evaluated. The Philosophical Days aim to address precisely these questions and, above all, shed light on the practical-philosophical dimension of dealing with AI systems.

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