Programme

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Angelic AIs as Artifactual, Epistemic, Social and Collective Agents 

AI as an emergent form of moral, social, and epistemic agency, drawing from philosophical traditions ranging from medieval metaphysics to contemporary metaethics.

Ramón Alvarado  (University of Oregon, USA):
Artefactual agency and Artificial Intelligence

Parris Haynes and Phillip Honenberger (Morgan State University, USA):
AI and Worldview: Simulated Agency and the Steerability of Fundamental Interpretive Orientations in LLMs

John Pitard (Yale University, USA):
Motivational Judgment Internalism and AI Alignment

Panel chair: Denisa Reshef Kera (Bar Ilan University, Israel)

Theological Perspectives on AI: Agency, Personhood and God
How AI agency challenges established theological and philosophical notions of personhood, spiritual integrity, and moral boundaries.

Denis Chiriac (Moldova State University), Maxim Marian Vlad (Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Constanța, Romania):
The Impossible Dialogue? Artificial Intelligence between Transhumanist Ideals and Orthodox Theology

Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand):
AI Agency and Personhood in Buddhism and Spinoza

Shlomit Wygoda Cohen (University of Haifa, Israel):
AI, Angels, and the Value of Human Activities

Panel chair: Dita Malečková (National Library of Technology, Czech Republic)

Communicating with (Non-Human) AI Agency:
Occult, Mythological and Scholastic Perspectives
This panel investigates how contemporary AI discourse revisits and reinterprets historically overlooked occult, astral, and mythological frameworks to redefine the epistemological and ontological roles of AI agents.

Rolly Belfert (Bar Ilan University, Israel):
Artifice and Intelligence: From the Middle Ages to the Information Age

Amir Vudka (University of Amsterdam, Netherland):
From Golem to GoLLMs

Brian Ballsun-Stanton ( Macquarie University, Australia):
An Absence of Judgment: AI’s Limitations in Deep Research tasks

Birte Platow (TU Dresden):
Deus in Machina: A guide for thinking humans (and machines)

Panel chair: Ran N. Afek (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Latent Spaces and Demonic Machines:
AI Deception and Enchantment
Examines deception, fiction, and enchantment, framing AI systems as demonic mediators blurring lines of autonomy and seduction. Ethical and Existential Implications of Demonic AI Agency,

Dita Malečková (National Library of Technology, Czech Republic):
Daimon of the Machine

Ran N. Afek (Tel Aviv University, Israel):
Artificial intelligence: a Deus, a Wizard, or a Sorcerer?

Enrique Encinas (The Oslo School of Architecture, Norway): 
Latent Interface :: Prompt(ing) in the Shell

Denisa Reshef Kera (Bar Ilan University, Israel): 
God Prompts and Glitch Tokens: Ritual Language, Ergative Structures, and Cosmological Deixis in AI

Panel chair: Ramón Alvarado  (University of Oregon, USA)

Final Discussions and LLMs exorcism performance

Final discussion with exorcism in the background as AI benchmarking performance

Invited discussant Claire Koen (Salve Regina University,  Religious and Theological Studies)

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