II Rio de Janeiro International Workshop: Rethink AI Ethics

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Artificial Intelligence now sits inside ordinary institutions: hospitals, schools, public agencies, workplaces, and the platforms through which we communicate. As it spreads, ethical debate cannot remain limited to “best practices” or technical fixes. The pressing task is more basic: to rethink AI ethics itself (its assumptions, its priorities, and its blind spots).

This workshop convenes philosophers, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and activists to revisit core questions: What counts as harm, and who gets to define it? Which values are silently encoded in datasets, models, and evaluation standards? How do AI systems reshape responsibility, authority, and trust when decisions are delegated to opaque infrastructures? And what kinds of regulation and institutional design are needed when AI amplifies existing asymmetries of power? Our goal is to develop richer ethical frameworks that connect the social world where AI operates so that deployment is guided by democratic accountability and oriented toward human flourishing and social justice.

A  Call for Abstracts  is open until 15 March 2026 to select speakers for the II Rio de Janeiro International Workshop: Rethink AI Ethics, that will happen at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais), Brazil, on the 30-31 March October 2026.

The accepted speakers will have 25 minutes to present their presentation and 15 minutes of Q&A. Any topic related with Ethics and Artificial Intelligence are welcome (official language: English and Portuguese).

To submit your abstract, submit the following material:
           (i) one word. document with a title, abstract (250 words);
           (ii) a cover page with name, affiliation, short bio (50 words) and email contact;
           to stevensequeira92 at hotmail dot com

There are no fees associated with participation in the Workshop.
In-person conference only (no online participation/ no streaming will be available).

We are sorry to say that no travel/staying funding is available to support the accepted speakers.
Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given on a daily basis 2/3 days after submission.

This event is part of the RTAIM Project (cf. https://trustaimedicine.weebly.com/) based at the University of Porto (PI: Steven S. Gouveia, 2022.02527.CEECIND) and the FCT/Mobility/1301043742/2024-25 awarded to Steven S. Gouveia.

Venue: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciência Sociais, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 
  
Organization:

• MLAG | IF | University of Porto
• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | PPGF
• ANPOF Working Group in Philosophy of Neuroscience, X-Phi, AI, and Neuroethics
• GabLab – Global Arbitration in the Brain Laboratory – IFCS – UFRJ

Organizing Committee

• Steven S. Gouveia (Research Fellow MLAG/IF/Uni. Porto | Visiting Professor PPGF-UFRJ)
• Gabriel J. C. Mograbi (Associate Professor UFRJ)

 
Support:

• MLAG/IF, FCT Project 2022.02527.CEECIND, University of Porto
• FCT/Mobility/1301043742/2024-25
• PPGF-UFRJ