AI&Humanity-Lab
I’m the founder and director of AI&Humanity-Lab at HKU, funded by a major grant from HKU: AI&Humanity-Lab. AI&Humanity-Lab@HKU conducts research on the ways in which AI interacts with and transforms humanity. Our projects are interdisciplinary with a basis in philosophy.
I’m on the steering committee for the Institute of Data Science at HKU. Here I discuss my work in that context.
MA in AI, Ethics and Society
I’m the program director of a new MA program at the University of Hong Kong:
Work on Philosophy of AI
Books
Rachel Sterken and I are editors of a forthcoming Open Access volume on OUP: Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives. This is the first major volume with philosophical perspectives on how humans can communicate with an AI, e.g., ChatGPT. Table of Contents can be found here.
My first book on the philosophy of AI was co-authored wiht Josh Dever: Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Perspectives.
Dever and I are now working on a second book: In Defence of Artificial Intelligences: An Essay on Inhuman Philosophy.
Papers
AI with Alien Content and Alien Metasemantics
Forthcoming in L. Anderson and E. Lepore (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Josh Dever).
Multimedia
- Podcast on Making AI Intelligible
- Can AI Transform Philosophy?
- Explainable Al & Human-Machine Interplays
- The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: What it Is, Why it Matters, and How it Can Influence the Development of AI