Conference Agenda

The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human

Chair(s): Francesco Striano (Università di Torino, Italy)

Presentations of the Symposium

Understanding generalization in large language models

Alessio Miaschi
Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”

Large language models are conversational zombies. Chatbots and speech acts: how to (not) do things with words

Laura Gorrieri
Università di Torino

The double LLM trust fallacy

Francesco Striano
Università di Torino

Generative AI, political communication and manipulation: the role of epistemic agency

Maria Zanzotto
Università di Torino

That’s not a bug, that’s an accidental function: on malfunctioning artifacts and concepts

Herman Veluwenkamp¹, Sebastian Köhler²

¹University of Groningen, The Netherlands; ²Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany

The Ethics and Epistemology of Malfunction in Human-Technology Integration

Alexandra Karakas

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Ascribing functions to software

Jeroen de Haas^1,2

¹Avans University of Applied Sciences; ²Eindhoven University of Technology

Does technology transform phronesis? A foray into the virtues and vices of procycling

Tiago Mesquita Carvalho

Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal

Creative machines & human well-being: an ethical challenge for the fully flourishing life?

Matthew Dennis

TU Eindhoven, Netherlands, The

Intelligence over wisdom: the price of conceptual priorities

Anuj Puri

Tilburg University, Netherlands, The

Addressing challenges to virtue ethics in the application of artificial moral agents: From a Confucian perspective

Yin On Billy Poon

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

News, AI, and issues in ethics

Nikhil Moro

Kansas State University, United States of America

Emotional expressions, Informational opacity, and Technology: On the necessity of overt emotional expressions in social life

Alexandra Prégent

Leiden University, NL

(Post)emotions in care: AI, mechanization, and emotional practices in the age of efficiency

Eliana Bergamin

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The

Affective injustice and affective artificial intelligence

Kris Goffin¹, Alfred Archer²

¹Maastricht University; ²Tilburg University

The helpless robot and the serving human

Lena Alicija Philine Fiedler

Technical University Berlin, Germany

Preserving intimacy in dementia care: an ethical and technological approach towards an ecology of memory

Nathan Degreef

UCLouvain, Belgium

Matters of care? How screenshotting reveals mental therapy chatbots’ artificial intimacies

Renée Ridgway

Aarhus University, Denmark

The limits of care: A critical analysis of AI companions' capacity for good care

meiting Wang

University of Auckland, New Zealand

From institutional psychotherapy to caring robots – a posthumanist perspective

Christoph Hubatschke, Ralf Vetter

IT:U Linz, Austria

Transformation of Autonomy in Human(patient)-AI/Robot-Relations

Kiyotaka Naoe

Tohoku University, Japan

Homo Translator: From biological models to to bio-inspired robots

Marco Tamborini

TU Darmstadt, Germany

A two-dimensional conceptualization of human-technology intimacy: against the notion of cyborg-relations

Bouke van Balen¹, Caroline Bollen²

¹TU Eindhoven, UMC Utrecht, TU Delft, Netherlands, The; ²TU Eindhoven

To be a Cyborg - an autobiographical Narrative about the intimate Impact of Neurotechnology

Trijsje Franssen

TUDelft, Netherlands, The

Vicarious responsibility and autonomous systems

Fabio Tollon

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ensuring Transparency and Accepting Failure in the Application of Autonomous Driving Technology in Smart City FormationーUtilization of Special Zones in Japan

Mayu Terada

Hitotsubashi University, Japan

AI-produced research in the humanities: Am I the author? Does it matter?

Thomas Nelson Metcalf^1,2

¹Institute for Science and Ethics, University of Bonn, Germany; ²Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, United States

From Automation to Authenticity: Rethinking AI through the MEAT framework

Rasleen Kour

Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, India, India

Autonomy, relationality and emancipation in the digital age

Eloise Changyue Soulier

University of Hamburg, Germany

Towards friendship among nonhumans: human, dog and robot

Masashi Takeshita

Hokkaido University, Japan

Artificial intelligence aided resolution of moral disagreement

Berker Bahceci

TU/e, Netherlands, The

Befriending AI: a cybernetic view

Naketa Williams

New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America

Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution

Chair(s): Benedict Lane (TU Delft, Netherlands, The)

Presentations of the Symposium

A relational ethics approach to navigate the socio-technical challenges of quantum technologies: Addressing the gaps in Responsible Innovation and Design for Values

María Palacios Barea
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft

Infrastructures of responsible quantum technologies

Adrian Schmidt, Zeki C. Seskir
Institut für Technikfolgen­abschätzung und System­analyse, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Revisiting the Security Dilemma in the Context of the Quantum Internet

Sybolt Doorn
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft

Identifying alternatives to the de facto division of moral labour in ELSA engagement with quantum technology development

Clare Shelley-Egan, Benedict Lane
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft

Responsible innovation ecosystems: advancing quantum for good through gender-transformative approaches

Shamira Ahmed
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft

Exploring SME responses to the EU AI Act: Balancing innovation and compliance

Lara Teresa Vitale^1,2, Suzana Alpsancar^1,2,3

¹University of Paderborn, Germany; ²Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Germany; ³The Association of German Engineers​​ (VDI), Germany

Between Human and Algorithmic Decisions: Analyzing the Ambiguities in the AI Act Definition of AI

David Doat

Catholic university of Lille, Belgium

Test and regulation: how testing to regulation leads to failure

Matthew James Phillip Wragg

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom