Programme BAI 2012

 

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Monday, November 5th

07:45–08:45 arrival and registration
08:45–09:00 official opening of the conference

Keynote Session (chair: Jan Romportl)

09:00–10:30
Hamid Ekbia (Indiana University) – Heteronomous Humans and Autonomous Artifacts: The Paradox of AI
+ discussion & coffee break

10:30–12:00
Kevin Warwick (University of Reading) – The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide
+ discussion

12:00–13:00 lunch break

13:00–14:30
Søren Holm (University of Manchester) – Going to the Dark Side – the Misuses of AI Promises in Persuasive Health Technologies
+ discussion & coffee break

14:30–16:00
Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford) – Moral AI: What kind of morality should AI have?
+ discussion & coffee break

16:00–17:30
David Roden (Open University) – Is a Singularitarian Ethics Impossible?
+ discussion

17:30–18:00 coffee & cigarettes

18:15 bus from University Campus to Pilsner Urquell Brewery

19:00–23:00 conference dinner at Pilsner Urquell Brewery (for keynotes, authors and accompanying persons)

 

Tuesday, November 6th

Regular Sessions

09:00–10:30 (chair: Søren Holm)
Mohammadreza Alidoust – A Novel Emotion-Based Decision Making Model to Use in Lifelike Intelligent Agents
Ivo Pezlar – Humean Machine: When Desires Are in Charge
Ralf Funke – From Gobble to Zen – The Quest for Truly Intelligent Software and the Monte Carlo Revolution in Go

10:30–11:00 coffee break

11:00–12:30 (chair: Julian Savulescu)
Petr Švarný – A visit on the uncanny hill
Michael Szollosy – Why Are We Afraid of Robots: The role of projection in the popular conception of robots
Stuart Armstrong – Predicting AI… or failing to

12:30–13:00 lunch break

13:00–15:15 (chair: Hamid Ekbia)
Jiri Wiedermann – Is There Something Beyond AI? Frequently Emerging, but Seldom Answered Questions about Artificial Super-Intelligence
Vít Bartoš – Is Evolution a Turing Machine?
coffee break
Jelena Guga – Cyborg: From Science Fiction to Social Reality
Krzysztof Solarewicz – River of Gods: AI in XXIst Century science fiction

15:15–15:30 closing ceremony