Lisbon and Bochum Workshop on the Possibility of Flourishing with Generative AI
This one-day workshop brings together researchers from Lisbon and Bochum to discuss the manuscript of Robert Clowes’s book Brave New Minds: Generative AI as Cognitive Ecology and What It Means for Our Future. Each speaker will discuss one of the book’s chapters in a 35-minute presentation, followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers and a final response from Robert Clowes. The workshop is organised by the GENAI Exploratory Project and the Lisbon Mind, Cognition and Knowledge Group, in collaboration with Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Programme
Morning
10:30–11:00 Robert Clowes (IFILNOVA and Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Introducing Brave New Minds
11:00–11:45 Marcin Lewiński (IFILNOVA)
Responding to Chapter 1, “Dialogical AI and Human Minds”
11:45–12:00 Coffee break
12:00–12:45 James Pearson (Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon)
Responding to Chapter 4, “Creative Thinking within Conceptual Spaces”
12:45–14:00 Lunch
Afternoon
14:00–14:45 Klaus Gärtner (IFILNOVA)
Responding to Chapter 2, “Chatbot Ontology and the Mind-Technology Problem”
14:45–15:30 Renée Ye (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Responding to Chapter 9, “Dead Roads, Dangerous Amplifications and the Possibility of Flourishing”
15:30–15:50 Coffee break
15:50–16:35 Paulo Castro (ISCTE-Sintra School of Digital Technologies)
Responding to Chapter 11, “Chimeras of the Self: Duplicates, Mimics, and Personnel Identity”
16:35–17:20 Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Responding to Chapters 10 and 12, “Agency, Authenticity & Self-Governance” and “Ersatz Others”