Kick-off conference on ‘AI Assertion‘
University of Graz, Austria, June 22-23, 2025. The program can be accessed here.
We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference examining the nature of AI assertion through the perspectives of philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, and human-computer interaction.
The conference will examine when and how AI systems can be said to make assertions, and how these compare to human speech acts. It will explore whether existing conversational norms apply to AI, or whether new standards are needed. We will address questions of responsibility and accountability in AI-mediated communication, especially in cases of misunderstanding or deception. Finally, the conference will consider how concepts like trust and normativity operate in human-AI interaction, and whether trust in AI language use is meaningful or misplaced.
By bringing together theoretical and empirical approaches, the event aims to clarify how our communicative norms are evolving in response to artificial interlocutors.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Mark Alfano (Macquarie University)
Jean-François Bonnefon (Toulouse School of Economics)
Ophelia Deroy (LMU Munich)
Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh University)
Bertram Malle (Brown University)
Saskia Nagel (RWTH Aachen)
The program can be accessed here.
Online seminar
Beginning in March 2025, we will hold a bi-weekly seminar in which scholars from philosophy, linguistics, computer science and cognitive science will present work relevant to the project. In case you are interested in presenting recent work or attending, please join our mailing list and we will inform you about the call for papers.