🚨 HKCRC Hybrid Seminar: All Learning is Generative
Prof. Boris Babic (HKU) debunks the "Generative AI Myth".
📅 3 Nov 2025 🕔 4:45–6:15 pm (HKT) 📍 LKK105 & Zoom
#AI #MachineLearning

Join us for the Hong Kong Catastrophic Risk Centre's Hybrid Research Seminar: "Maximising Rationality and Saving the Greater Number" by our new colleague Prof. Leora Sung (@LingnanU)!
📅 Oct 13, 2025 | 4:45-6:15 PM HKT 📍 LKK302 or Zoom (links in the pic)

Join our own Prof. Peter Hawke for a seminar on “De Morgan’s Laws and Epistemic Language” on Sep 29, 16:45-18:15 HKT at LKK107 (Lingnan main campus) or via Zoom. All are welcome! #Philosophy #LingnanUniversity

Join us for a hybrid seminar with Prof. Nate Sheradin (The University of Hong Kong) on "The Default Argument for Cognitive Enfeeblement" - 22 Sep 2025, 4:45-6:15 PM (HKT) at LKK107 & Zoom 🎙️📚.

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📚 Seeking a Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Lingnan University! Teach courses like Set Theory, Critical Thinking, or Philosophy of AI. PhD required, strong publication record preferred. Apply: lingnan.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

On the love for humanity and future generations I argue for a qualified version of the claim that we love humanity. In particular, I suggest that our reactions to a series of scenarios describing different possible futures reveal that, after all...

New paper now published open access:
"Do we love humanity? And does this give us reasons to care about future generations?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper forthcoming in Utilitas by @andreasauchelli Rule consequentialism and demandingness: The wrong solutions? (Open access) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper on pessimism and anti-natalism now available open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#pessimism #anti-natalism #evil

Please share widely! Job in Phil of AI / Ethics of risk at the department of Philosophy (LingnanU, Hong Kong)

All Play and No Work? AI and Existential Unemployment - The Journal of Ethics Recent developments in large language models and image generation software raise the possibility that AI systems might one day replace humans in some of the intrinsically valuable work through which h...

New article by HKCRC fellow Gary O’Brien: ‘All Play and No Work? AI and Existential Unemployment.’ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Terrific interview, highly recommended!

April 15–17, at M+, West Kowloon Cultural District: the Philosophy Dep at LU and HKCRC are co-organising with friends from Genova and Kobe a workshop on value theory, with talks on aesthetics (and AI), ethics, population axiology and more. Everyone is welcome!

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The Origins of Russian Colonialism: From Pushkin to Putin by Prof. Dr. Ewa Thompson YouTube video by European Resilience Initiative Center

Recommended especially for colleagues working in the philosophy of art who are interested in the intersection between art and morality. youtu.be/jSNRPFu_LuY?...

Ethics and Global Catastrophic Risks: A free online courseWhat is Risk?Rational Decisions under RiskMoral Permissibility of Risk ImpositionRisk, Value and Future GenerationAI RiskEnvironmental Global ... Explore our comprehensive learning journey: 8 interactive modules with text and video content. No experience needed to get started. 提供中文版本；右上角切換語言。

Hey everyone, check out this free online course on the ethics of global catastrophic risks. There are modules on the notion of risk, rational decision, future generations, AI risk, and much more. It’s in English with Chinese translation: ln.edu.hk/philoso/hkcrc/risk #catastrophicrisks #freecourse

understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

The HKCRC is hosting a public event on the ethics of war and peace with Prof. Helen Frowe! Join us online or on campus

C. Thi Nguyen: Values, Legibility, and Gamification Podcast 單集 · The Gradient: Perspectives on AI · 13/06/2024 · 1 小時 30 分鐘

podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/t... I greatly enjoyed this episode!

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If interested in some philosophy/ethics of war, Helen Frowe’s The ethics of war and peace (3rd ed) is a good introduction.

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