Conference Agenda

Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue

Chair(s): Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen, Aleksandra Kazakova

Presentations of the Symposium

Practice is the source of true knowledge: Lesson from the flight experiments of Samuel Langley and the Wright brothers

Fangyi Shi, Nan Wang

A reflection on the development of cryogenic engineering

Zhongjun Hu, Dazhou Wang

Effective development of gulong shale oil under the guidance of engineering philosophy

He Liu, Dongqi Ji

Engineering innovations in novel supercritical fluids energy and power systems: from fundamentals to application demonstrations

Lin Chen

The enhancement of technical requirements for astronaut training in deep space exploration and philosophical reflections

Zhihui Zhang

Engineering science, artificial intelligence and philosophy: an interdisciplinary dialogue

Chair(s): Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen, Aleksandra Kazakova

Presentations of the Symposium

Ethical frontiers in human stem cell-based embryo model

Yaojin Peng

AI-driven synthetic biology: engineering philosophy, challenges, and ethical implications

Lu Gao

Bridging the responsibility gap: ethical responsibility pathways and framework reconstruction in artificial intelligence

Shuchan Wan, Cheng Zhou

Basic Ideas on Engineering science and engineering scientists: a contribution to philosophy of engineering science

Dazhou Wang, Christopher Coenen

LLMs, autonomy, and narration

Björn Lundgren, Inken Titz

Intimacy as a Tech-Human Symbiosis: Reframing the LLM-User Experience from a Phenomenological Perspective

Stefano Calzati

Large language models and cognitive deskilling

Richard Heersmink

“Who” is silenced when AI does the talking? Philosophical implications of using LLMs in relational settings

Tara Miranovic, Katleen Gabriels

Connecting Dots: Political and Ethical Considerations on the Centralization of Knowledge and Information in Data Platforms and LLMs

Anne-Marie McManus

LLMs and Testimonal Injustice

William James Victor Gopal

The power topology of algorithmic governance

Taicheng Tan

Believable generative agents: A self-fulfilling prophecy?

Leonie Alina Möck, Sven Thomas

Fair to understansd fairness contexually in machine learning

Jyoti Kishore

Technology as a constellation: The challenges of doing ethics on enabling technologies

Sage Cammers-Goodwin, Michael Nagenborg

Is extensible markup language perspectivist?

Timothy Tambassi

Wittgenstein’s Woodsellers and AI: Interpreting Large Language Models in practice: Rationality First vs Coherence First approaches

Mark Robrecht Theunissen

Time and Temporality in Engineering Language

Aleksandra Kazakova

Memes, generative AI, humor, and intimacy: collective empowerment through shared laughter

Alberto Romele, Fabrizio Defilippi

‘Trust the Machine?’: Conceptualising Trust in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Pia-Zoe Hahne

The Concept of ai Risk

Lieke Fröberg

The productive function of technology with regard to subjectification and the example of affective computing

Sebastian Nähr-Wagener, Orsolya Friedrich

The Soylent Mentality: "Efficiency Fundamentalism" and the Future of Food

Ryan Jenkins

The ethical fabric of computational social science research: norms, practices, and values

Chirag Arora

From artificial wombs to lab grown embryos: technologies and the myth of the ex-utero human

Llona Kavege, Amy Hinterberger

AI agency in medical practices: The case of pathology

Oceane Fiant

Could Artificial Intelligence Assuage Loneliness? If so, which kind?

Ramon Alvarado

Epistemology of ignorance and datafication – To interrogate the necessity for secrecy in AI through marginalised groups’ experiences

Marilou Niedda

Reclaiming control of thought and behavior data through the right to freedom of thought.

Kristina Pakhomchik