15th November at 18:30 (Central European Time)
Speaker: Mihaela Constantinescu
Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania.
https://filosofie.unibuc.ro/en/mihaela-constantinescu-en/
Title: Generative AI avatars and responsibility gaps
Abstract: In this talk I address the extent to which digital and robotic generative AI avatars that represent individual persons complicate responsibility gaps opened by increasingly autonomous AI systems. I argue that using GenAI avatars requires us to lose some level of agency in terms of control and knowledge, which are precisely the two main criteria widely used to ascribe moral responsibility. Use of digital and physical GenAI avatars therefore opens new responsibility gaps, which refer to the exact nature of the relationship between the human users and their avatars powered by generative AI, and which can adequately be called “proximity gaps”.