Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Network Talks

The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Network Talks (PAINT) is a biweekly international online seminar series that connects philosophers working on normative aspects of AI, including moral and political philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, epistemology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and aesthetics. 

Upcoming Seminar Presentation

All seminars are on Mondays at 8:30 am PT / 11:30 am ET / 4:30 pm London / 5:30 pm Berlin. (We use ET as the reference point, when daylight saving changes shift things) 

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Date: January 26, 2026

• Speaker: Madeleine Ransom (joint work with Nicole Menard)

• Title: A Dilemma for Skeptics of Trustworthy AI 

• Abstract:  Can AI ever be (un)trustworthy? A growing number of philosophers argue that it cannot, because AI lack some human feature deemed essential for the trust relation, such as moral agency or being responsive to reasons. Here we propose a dilemma for these skeptics. Either such theorists must hold there is either only one kind of trust (monism), or that there are multiple varieties of trust (pluralism). The first horn of the dilemma is that a monistic view of trust is implausible: no one analysis can capture all kinds of trust relationships. The second horn of the dilemma is that if such theorists adopt a pluralistic account of trust they have little reason to deny that AI is the sort of thing that can be trustworthy: while AI may fail to possess characteristics required for some kinds of trust relations, these are not necessary conditions for trustworthiness.

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