Large Language Models, Artificial Others and Cognitive Flourishing

Large language Models (LLMs) and other forms of generative AI have quickly become an everyday feature of human life and are likely to have profound consequences for human cognition. This workshop examines how we might live with, and incorporate them into our imaginative lives, especially when we deal with them in intimate interpersonal settings and as though they were persons.We especially look at how our sense of what other minds are may be undergoing a transformation in the process and we examine the opportunities and challenges for human flourishing against this new backdrop.

SPEAKERS

Keith Frankish (University of Sheffield / University of Crete)
Maria Kasmirli (Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Crete / Life Worth Living Fellow at Yale University, USA / Research Fellow at University of Sheffield, UK)
Paul Smart (University of Southampton)
Vítor Duarte dos Santos (NOVA Information Management School, Lisbon)
Robert W. Clowes (IFILNOVA, Lisbon)

PROGRAMME

10:30 – 11:30 Keith Frankish, Consciousness, Reactivity, and Large Language Models
11:30 – 12:30 Paul Smart, Large Language Models and Cognitive Health
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Maria Kasmirli, Flourishing with Artificial Friends?
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee
15:20 – 16:20 Robert W. Clowes, Ersatz Others and their Solicitations: Large Language Models as Friends and Significant Others
16:20 – 17:20 Vítor Duarte dos Santos, Literature, Imaginative Textuality and Artificial Intelligence. The end of literature?

To join the session via Zoom, use this link.

Org. Robert W. Clowes, Klaus Gaertner, Vítor Duarte dos Santos

Event supported by NOVA FCSH within the scope of the ArgLab exploratory research project “(GENAI) Ensuring Human Cognitive Flourishing against the background of GENerative AI: sustaining deep minds within our new cognitive ecology”, in partnership with NOVA IMS.