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AI Agents: Artificial, Angelic, or Adversarial Intelligence?
July 2nd at University of Twente, Enschede, NL
A one-day summit of talks, activities, and workshops
A one-day summit of talks, activities, and workshops
One-day Symposium on AI agents
One-day Symposium on AI agents
Presentations, workshops & performative panel featuring an LLM “exorcism” that follows the classic exorcist manual (Rituale Romanum) with a discussion.
Call for Papers
Do contemporary AI agents exemplify or reinterpret forgotten debates on the ontological and ethical functions of angelic intellects, demonic adversaries, and phantasmata (machines)? This symposium frames Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a catalyst reigniting foundational discussions about agency, ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Debates on radically externalized, affective, distributed, simulated, or emergent forms of agency agency are after all rooted in medieval scholastic inquiries into non-human intelligences. Revisiting these historical paradigms allows us to interrogate whether AI revives premodern ontologies or forces their radical reconfiguration under contemporary technological, ethical, and philosophical conditions.
📌 Abstracts: 300–500 words
📌 Submission Email: algorithms.automation@gmail.com also IACAP2025 link
📌 Deadline for Abstracts: 28.3.2025 (extended)
📌 Notification of Acceptance: 2.4.2025
We welcome papers that engage deeply and creatively with classical philosophy, theology, and contemporary AI research in the social sciences and related disciplines. Submissions should move beyond simplistic dialogues with AI to offer rigorous theoretical engagements with non-human agency, intelligence, and ethics. We encourage contributions from fields such as medieval studies, philosophy of mind, AI ethics, and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies, among others. Additionally, we invite computer scientists and researchers in technical fields who are interested in exploring these interdisciplinary issues.
We welcome papers that engage deeply and creatively with classical philosophy, theology, and contemporary AI research in the social sciences and related disciplines. Submissions should move beyond simplistic dialogues with AI to offer rigorous theoretical engagements with non-human agency, intelligence, and ethics. We encourage contributions from fields such as medieval studies, philosophy of mind, AI ethics, and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies, among others. Additionally, we invite computer scientists and researchers in technical fields who are interested in exploring these interdisciplinary issues.
By reframing AI within historical and philosophical traditions, this symposium aims to illuminate how agency, intelligence, and moral responsibility are being redefined. We invite scholars to contribute to this critical conversation by examining AI not merely as an extension of human cognition but as a challenge to fundamental assumptions about knowledge, autonomy, and shared existence. Papers should critically analyze AI’s ontological and epistemic status, its ethical implications, and its role in reshaping historical and contemporary understandings of agency and intelligence.
By reframing AI within historical and philosophical traditions, this symposium aims to illuminate how agency, intelligence, and moral responsibility are being redefined. We invite scholars to contribute to this critical conversation by examining AI not merely as an extension of human cognition but as a challenge to fundamental assumptions about knowledge, autonomy, and shared existence. Papers should critically analyze AI’s ontological and epistemic status, its ethical implications, and its role in reshaping historical and contemporary understandings of agency and intelligence.
Convenors:
Dr. Denisa Reshef Kera
Design & Policy lab
Senior Lecturer
Science, Technology and Society Program
Bar Ilan University, Israel
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Dr. Ramón Alvarado
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Oregon, USA
Research
Contact https://ramonalvarado.net/
Prof. John Symons
Professor of Philosophy
Director of the Center for Cyber Social Dynamics
University of Kansas, USA
Contact http://www.johnsymons.net/
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The Venue
The Venue
University of Twente
University of Twente
Enschede, NL
Enschede, NL
Conference registration opens: April 1, 2025.
(For individual papers, posters, and workshops: In case you need a visa, please note this with your submission so that we can facilitate an early review.)
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