This is an interdisciplinary hybrid seminar series aiming to cover relevant areas of societal, legal, political implications of AI technology, mainly with a focus on applications in the field of biomedical studies / health.
The in-person seminars will meet in Dalhousie 1G10 from 12noon-1pm.
September 3 - Joe Slater - LLMs and Threats to Autonomy
Join us for this seminar with Joe Slater, Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs (CEPPA) at Glasgow University.
This will be an in-person seminar but you can join us online through the link below.
September 17 - Matt Jope
Join us for this seminar with Matt Jope, Lecturer in Philosophy at Glasgow University. This will be an in-person seminar, but you can join us online through the link below.
Speaker: Dr Joe Slater (University of Glasgow)
Title: LLMs and Threats to Autonomy
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are being used in various ways in all sorts of domains. Big tech companies promise that these tools will revolutionise the way we perform a wide range of tasks. In this talk, I consider some of the ways that our autonomy may be undermined by the widespread adoption of LLMs, and gesture towards some of the ways these harms might be mitigated.
Bio: Dr Slater is a UK-based philosopher. He currently works for the University of Glasgow. Before coming to Glasgow, he lectured in moral and political philosophy at St Andrews.