CFP: 4th Luxembourg Workshop on Epistemology and AI

The general goal of this workshop is to explore philosophical questions lying at the intersection of Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence. Thus, questions of interest include, but are by no means limited to, the following:

(i) How (if at all) is it possible to understand, explain and gain knowledge about Neural Networks given the complexity and opacity of their internal operations and training history?

(ii) How might AI technologies be used to supplement and improve our own human epistemic capacities?

(iii) When (if ever) is it rational to rely on AI technologies whose internal operations we do not fully understand when forming beliefs?

(iv) What fixes the content of the outputs of Neural Networks? When (if ever) should we attribute contents to internal parts/processes of Neural Networks?

(v) To what extent, and in what ways, are the linguistic outputs of Large Language Models similar or dissimilar to Human Testimony?

This workshop is part of the 3-year FNR funded project ‘The Epistemology of AI Systems’ (EAI). It is also the 4th in a series of workshops on Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence. The 1st workshop took place in Luxembourg in 2022, the 2nd one in Hangzhou in 2023, and the 3rd one again in Luxembourg in 2024.

Submissions: Extended Abstracts of 1000 words (max.), prepared for blind review, should be sent to [email protected]. The deadline for submission is March 15th, and we aim to send the notifications of acceptance by April 1st. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and the title of the submission in the main body of the email.

We will provide up to 3 nights of accommodation plus a conference dinner for the authors of contributed talks. Please note however that we are not able to reimburse any travel expenses for contributing speakers.

For any questions concerning the workshop, please, email at aleks.knoks[at]uni.lu or thomas.raleigh[at]uni.lu.