A conference “AI, Philosophy and Religion” (May 13, 2024)

AI experts and researchers from many centers, will present different perspectives on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and philosophy and religion during the international conference “AI, Philosophy and Religion”, which will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw in the Maria Ossowska Hall (116) on May 13. Free entrance. Details below.

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The conference will begin with a speech devoted to current achievements in the field of developing neural networks and training models. In the next section, we will learn an example of the use of a language model in the context of theological argumentation. The next lectures will reveal problems related to AI in the context of ethics and law as well as the theological tradition of Islam. We will also see how interesting it is to test chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs), how to prompt appropriately and what to watch out for, especially when we want to treat chatbots as reliable sources and reasonable partners in serious discussions on religious and theological topics. Finally, various philosophical perspectives will be presented in which we ask about AI, including: the issue of dialogue, synthetic philosophy and, of course, consciousness.

Researchers from various countries will participate in the conference. Our guests will include, among others: prof. Ines Skelac from the University of Zagreb, collaborating with Bruno Banelli, as well as prof. Mehmet Bulgen from Marmara University in Istanbul. You will also meet Dr. Furkan Özçelik from the University of Toulouse (who is co-organizing the conference), working on models that interpret brain waves (based on fMRI) and generate images similar to what the subject thinks about. We will also listen to the speeches of the scholars from our faculty, including Dr. Emilia Kaczmarek and prof. Stanisław Krajewski, as well as of a specialist in the philosophy of information and philosophy of computer science, Dr. Roman Krzanowski from the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow. An important part of the conference will also be a student session, during which students of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw will present fascinating results of their tests on selected models or chatbots.

It will be an excellent opportunity to gain extensive knowledge about the current capabilities of artificial intelligence in the context of philosophical and theological questions, as well as to ask questions to experts who work with neural networks on a daily basis. We cordially invite employees, students and PhD students, as well as all interested parties, to join us on May 13 in the Ossowska Hall (116) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw at Krakowskie Przedmieście 3 in Warsaw.

More details: http://aiphirel2024.pl/

See the programme and a poster below:

10.00-10.40	Bruno Banelli: AI Updates
10.40-11.15	Ines Skelac, Bruno Banelli: A Multidimensional Language Model for Argumentation in Theological Texts
11.15-11.30	COFFEE
11.30-12.00	Nursena Çetingül, Mehmet Bulgen: Neurolaw in the Age of AI: A Critical Reading from the Perspective of Kalām
12.00-12.30	Emilia Kaczmarek: Comparing the Risks of Under-Attributing and Over-Attributing Moral Status to AI
12.30-14.00	LUNCH
14.00-14.30	Furkan Ozcelik: Exploring Prompts and Identities for the Arguments of God’s Existence on LLMs
14.30-15.00	Marcin Trepczyński: Skills and Biases of LLM-Powered Chatbots in the Field of Theology and Philosophy
15.00-15.15	COFFEE
15.15-15.45	Shreyoshi Ghoshray: Cognition, Consciousness, and Common Heritage: AI System’s Convergence Difficulty with Human Intelligence
15.45-16.15	Roman Krzanowski: What Is Synthetic Philosophy?
16.15-16.30	COFFEE
16.30-17.00	Stanisław Krajewski: Can AI Take Part in Dialogue?
17.00-17.30	Stephen L. Singsit: Reimagining the Sacred: A Theoretical Exploration of AI-Generated Religious Content and Protestant Christianity (Tentative)
17.30-17.45	COFFEE
17.45-18.30	STUDENT SESSION Stanisław Szeląg: The Quest for Genuine Artificial Intelligence: What Are We Looking For Karol Sajnok: From Divine Logic to Quantum Minds: Bridging Theology and Quantum Optical Neural Networks Dawid Przygoński: Chatbots vs Math, or Rather: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
19.00	DINNER