Conference Agenda

Session
(Symposium) The illusion of conversation. From the manipulation of language to the manipulation of the human
Time:
Wednesday, 25/June/2025:
3:00pm - 4:30pm

 Location: Auditorium 3

Presentations

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