WGPT

27/01/2025

We are starting our new reading group on Raymond Ruyer's "Cybernetics and the Origin of Information". All are welcome to join!

For more info feel free to reach out to us and keep an eye on our website: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt/RG

17/12/2024

The Ramsey Lab and the Chair Ethics and AI at KU Leuven are hosting a conference on the Large-Scale Risks of AI: Control, Governance, and Ethics. Call for abstracts is open!

International Conference on Large-Scale AI Risks https://www.kuleuven.be/ethics-kuleuven/chair-ai/conference-ai-risks https://www.kuleuven.be/++resource++plone-logo.svg International Conference on Large-Scale AI Risks Large-Scale Risks of AI: Control, Governance, and Ethics The Ramsey Lab and the Ch...

05/12/2024

Workshop on AI and Sustainability, with colleagues from Leuven, Delft and Bonn, which will take place on 28 February in Leuven. All welcome, registrations are open!

Workshop on AI and Sustainability https://www.kuleuven.be/ethics-kuleuven/chair-ai/workshop-sustainability https://www.kuleuven.be/++resource++plone-logo.svg Workshop on AI and Sustainability Leuven-Bonn-Delft Workshop on AI and Sustainability February 28th 2025 Download information Image: Hanna Bar...

07/06/2024

The website for our conference on "Virtue Ethics and Technology" is online!

Check it out:👇

Virtue Ethics & Technology https://hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt/2024-conference https://hiw.kuleuven.be/++resource++plone-logo.svg Virtue Ethics & Technology KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy 19-20 September 2024 Keynotes Lonneke Peperkamp Fabio Tollon The KU Leuven Working Group on Philosophy of Techno...

12/04/2024

New PhD opportunity at the KU Leuven - Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte on the philosophy of technology, with a focus on experimental philosophy and virtue ethics. Apply now!

As part of a collaboration between the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven) and the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, a fully funded PhD position for 4 years is offered.

08/04/2024

Still a week left to submit your abstract to our international conference on virtue ethics and technology. Send us your abstracts by Sunday evening.
Full CFA and how to submit👇

The KU Leuven Working Group on Philosophy of Technology and Belgian Royal Military Academy are delighted to announce a 2-day international conference on the interplay between virtue ethics and the philosophy of technology (with one day dedicated to military technologies), to be held (in-person) at t...

29/03/2024

📢The deadline for the CFA for the International Conference on Virtue Ethics and Technology
is being extended to 14 April at midnight!

More info and full CFA on https://hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt/conference

10/02/2024

We are starting our new reading group on Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time next Tuesday. All are welcome to join!

For more info, see https://hiw.kuleuven.be/wgpt/RG

29/01/2024

All welcome to the upcoming talk by Risto Uuk (Future of Life Institute) on the EU AI Act, co-organized by WGPT together with the KU Leuven Chair Ethics and AI. More info below.

Here you can find a list of upcoming and past lectures organized by WGPT.

17/01/2024

Call for Abstracts

International Conference on Virtue Ethics and Technology

Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, 19-20 September 2024

The KU Leuven Working Group on Philosophy of Technology and Belgian Royal Military Academy are delighted to announce a 2-day international conference on the interplay between virtue ethics and the philosophy of technology (with one day dedicated to military technologies), to be held (in-person) at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium 19-20 September 2024.

The KU Leuven Working Group on Philosophy of Technology and Belgian Royal Military Academy are delighted to announce a 2-day international conference on the interplay between virtue ethics and the philosophy of technology (with one day dedicated to military technologies), to be held (in-person) at t...

02/11/2023

Our member Lode Lauwaert was interviewed for Knack on the risks of Artificial Intelligence (in Dutch)

Artificiële intelligentie kan ons helpen om de complexe problemen van onze tijd op te lossen, zegt techniekfilosoof Lode Lauwaert. ‘Maar er moet meer aandacht zijn voo...