Where no proxy has gone before: avatars & responsibility frameworks
Facultatea de Filosofie
Bucharest
Romania
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Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, 10 & 11 October 2024
Description: Avatars in the form of digital or robotic embodied representations of a person in virtual or physical environments are being deployed in fields such as healthcare, education, social interaction or workspace. Alternatively termed as digital/ robotic twins, clones or duplicates of real humans, personal avatars can be coupled with AI technologies such as (personalized/small/large) Language Models to the extent that their human users do not control them in real time. This seems to raise new challenges in terms of agency ascriptions, (dis)enhancement of human capabilities and oversight, potentially opening new responsibility gaps. The purpose of this two-day workshop is to explore the new set of issues opened by use of digital and robotic avatars, and to assess the limits of our current frameworks of responsibility in relation to these issues.
Keynote and guest speakers include:
Paula Sweeney (University of Aberdeen)
Daniele Pucci (Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
Kathryn B. Francis (Keele University)
Stefano Dafarra (Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
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