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The Ethics of Generative AI & Conversational Agents

LMU’s AI Ethics Research Group, in Cooperation With the MCML, Invites for a Two-Day Conference

   12.09.2024 - 13.09.2024

   LMU Munich, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Richard Wagner-Straße 10, 80333 Munich, Room 105

This conference explores ethical issues posed by generative artificial intelligence and conversational agents. It brings together academic researchers and AI ethics practitioners to examine the ethics of generative AI in general, as well as studying the specific challenges this new technology poses in industrial settings.

The conference explores ethical issues posed by generative artificial intelligence and conversational agents. It brings together academic researchers and AI ethics practitioners to examine the ethics of generative AI in general, as well as studying the specific challenges this new technology poses in industrial settings.

Agenda

Day 1 - Thursday 12 September

9:30 am – 10:00 am

Registration

10:00 am – 10:15 am

Welcome + Opening Remarks

10:15 am – 11:15 am

What is embedded ethics?

Alena Buyx, TUM / MCML


11:15 am – 12:45 pm

Exploring the role of value-sensitive designs for large-language model-based voice assistants targeting people with dementia

Rasita Vinay, UZH


12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Personal avatars and the problem of uniqueness

Paula Sweeney, Aberdeen


3:15 pm – 3:45 pm

Coffee Break

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm

The knowledge-behavior disconnect in LLM-based chatbots

Jan Broersen, Utrecht


5:15 pm – 7:00 pm

Generative AI and manipulation: a research agenda

Michael Klenk, Delft


7:00 pm

Pay-as-you-go dinner

Day 2 – Friday 13 September

10:00 am – 10:15 am

Arrival and Registration

10:15 am – 11:45 am

AI Safety: a climb to armageddon?

Herman Cappelen, Hong Kong


11:45 am – 1:00 pm

The right to reality

Anuj Puri, Tilburg


1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Ethics of GenAI used in business software

Bettina Laugwitz, SAP


3:15 pm – 3:45 pm

Coffee Break

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm

The ethics of advanced AI assistants

Geoff Keeling, Google


5:15 pm – 7:00 pm

The role of Conversational AI in mental healthcare: the importance of conceptualization, epistemology and ethics

Jana Sedlakova, UZH


Organized by:

Sven Nyholm, Benjamin Lange, Lara Maszynski
MCML/LMU

Carina Geldhauser
ETHZ


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