AI and the gaps on the bright side of responsibility

Daniela Vacek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Comenius University)

Call for Participation
AP in V4 Lecture Series — Analytic Philosophy in Visegrad Countries

Title: AI and the gaps on the bright side of responsibility
Speaker: Daniela Vacek (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Date and time: 1st of June 2026, 15:00–16:30 CET (3:00–4:30 p.m. CET)
Format: Online lecture 

Organised by: Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia), University of Ostrava (Czech Republic), and University of Warsaw (Poland), with the support of the Visegrad Fund.
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Abstract:

I will present a view of gaps in praiseworthiness (known as AI achievement gaps).
This view accepts that such gaps are a genuine concern but also shows that they can be
filled. This activity of “filling a gap”, however, requires stretching certain concepts (such as
collective, vicarious, or proxy responsibility) beyond their standard boundaries. Doing so, this
approach allows for ascribing responsibility for the good (or even neutral) outcomes of AI
systems to human stakeholders.


About the speaker

Daniela Vacek is a philosopher based in Bratislava and a researcher affiliated with the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University in Bratislava. Her work brings together AI ethics, responsibility, aesthetics, and philosophical logic, with particular interests in artificial intelligence, fiction and poetry, and hyperintensional logic. She also led the international Pavel Tichý project, Pavel Tichý on Individuals, Roles, and God, a three-year research project supported by the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford and funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Her publication record includes recent and forthcoming work in Analysis, AI & Society, Ethics and Information Technology, AI and Ethics, and Synthese, as well as earlier papers in venues such as British Journal of Aesthetics, Logic Journal of the IGPL, Organon F, and Filozofia.

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