Conference Agenda

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

Chair(s): Francesco Striano

Presentations of the Symposium

Understanding generalization in large language models

Alessio Miaschi

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

Laura Gorrieri

The double LLM trust fallacy

Francesco Striano

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

Maria Zanzotto

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

Herman Veluwenkamp, Sebastian Köhler

The Ethics and Epistemology of Malfunction in Human-Technology Integration

Alexandra Karakas

Ascribing functions to software

Jeroen de Haas

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

Tiago Mesquita Carvalho

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

Matthew Dennis

Intelligence over wisdom: the price of conceptual priorities

Anuj Puri

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

Yin On Billy Poon

News, AI, and issues in ethics

Nikhil Moro

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

Alexandra Prégent

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

Eliana Bergamin

Affective injustice and affective artificial intelligence

Kris Goffin, Alfred Archer

The helpless robot and the serving human

Lena Alicija Philine Fiedler

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

Nathan Degreef

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

Renée Ridgway

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

meiting Wang

From institutional psychotherapy to caring robots – a posthumanist perspective

Christoph Hubatschke, Ralf Vetter

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

Kiyotaka Naoe

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

Marco Tamborini

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

Bouke van Balen, Caroline Bollen

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

Trijsje Franssen

Vicarious responsibility and autonomous systems

Fabio Tollon

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

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

Thomas Nelson Metcalf

From Automation to Authenticity: Rethinking AI through the MEAT framework

Rasleen Kour

Autonomy, relationality and emancipation in the digital age

Eloise Changyue Soulier

Towards friendship among nonhumans: human, dog and robot

Masashi Takeshita

Artificial intelligence aided resolution of moral disagreement

Berker Bahceci

Befriending AI: a cybernetic view

Naketa Williams

Ethical lessons from the second quantum revolution

Chair(s): Benedict Lane

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

Infrastructures of responsible quantum technologies

Adrian Schmidt, Zeki C. Seskir

Revisiting the Security Dilemma in the Context of the Quantum Internet

Sybolt Doorn

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

Clare Shelley-Egan, Benedict Lane

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

Shamira Ahmed

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

Lara Teresa Vitale, Suzana Alpsancar

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

David Doat

Test and regulation: how testing to regulation leads to failure

Matthew James Phillip Wragg