Predicting & Explaining with AI- PExAI Kick Off event

May 18, 2026
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University Campus, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens
Greece

This event is available both online and in-person

Sponsor(s):

  • Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation

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(unaffiliated)
University of Athens
University of Bristol
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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To celebrate the commencement of the project PExAI, a kick off event is organised at the University of Athens.

The program is the following:

12.00- 12.10 What is PExAI?

12.10- 13.00 Vanessa Seifert (University of Athens), 'Can AI undermine standard scientific realism?'   

13.15- 14.15 Emanuele Ratti (University of Bristol) TBA

14.15- 15.30 Lunch break

15.30- 16.30 Craig Butts (University of Bristol) ‘Machine Learning for Identifying Molecules - Acronyms, Spectroscopy and Naiveity’

16.45- 17.45 Stathis Psillos (University of Athens) ‘Existential threat and the Precautionary Principle’

This is a hybrid event.

  • Physical location: Department of History and Philoosphy of Science, University of Athens, Greece

  • Link: TBA

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