Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have generated a lot of public anxiety, especially regarding ethical issues: data bias, privacy, the opacity of automated decisions, the effects of algorithmic bubbles on democratic debate, not to mention the harms caused by deep fakes – the list goes on. In response, the emerging field of AI ethics aspires to address these issues.The expert panel of this year's Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Symposium, chaired by award-winning journalist R...
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Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have generated a lot of public anxiety, especially regarding ethical issues: data bias, privacy, the opacity of automated decisions, the effects of algorithmic bubbles on democratic debate, not to mention the harms caused by deep fakes – the list goes on. In response, the emerging field of AI ethics aspires to address these issues.The expert panel of this year's Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Symposium, chaired by award-winning journalist R...
Has Science Killed Philosophy? - The 2021 Annual Debate
Annual Lectures, Symposiums, and Events
1 hour 17 minutes
3 years ago
Has Science Killed Philosophy? - The 2021 Annual Debate
Stephen Hawking's proclamation that philosophy is dead was clearly hyperbole. But when it comes to understanding the fundamental nature of reality, has philosophy really got anything left to contribute? Does the rise of physics demand the end of metaphysics?Debating these questions are Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Théorique of the Aix-Marseille University), Eleanor Knox (King’s College London) and Alex Rosenberg (Duke University) with the BBC’s Ritula Shah in the chair.
Annual Lectures, Symposiums, and Events
Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have generated a lot of public anxiety, especially regarding ethical issues: data bias, privacy, the opacity of automated decisions, the effects of algorithmic bubbles on democratic debate, not to mention the harms caused by deep fakes – the list goes on. In response, the emerging field of AI ethics aspires to address these issues.The expert panel of this year's Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Symposium, chaired by award-winning journalist R...
