HI Ethics Forum: Embodied mind and Machine Normativity in the age of AI

Join us for online HI Ethics Forum: Embodied mind and Machine Normativity in the age of AI on Thursday 28 May, 2026 at 11.30-13.00 (UTC+3). In this Ethics Forum embodied mind meets artificial intelligence and situated normativity is examined in Large Language models.

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Zoom link: https://oulu.zoom.us/j/61423238733

Programme:

11.30 Welcoming words by Susanne Uusitalo, Senior researcher in ethics of AI, Hybrid Intelligence programme, University of Oulu

11.35 Artificial Intelligence and Embodied Mind by Heidi Haanila, Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Turku

12.05 Traced Situated Normativity in Large Language Models by Julian Kiverstein, senior researcher at the Lemon Tree Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Philosophy at Amsterdam UMC

Ethical reflections and general discussion

13.00 Closing

About the speakers:

Heidi Haanila is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Turku, specializing in philosophy of mind within a multidisciplinary framework. Her research focuses on selfhood and consciousness, and she teaches courses on philosophy of artificial intelligence and theories of mind.

Julian Kiverstein currently is senior researcher at the Lemon Tree Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Philosophy at Amsterdam UMC. Trained as a philosopher of mind and neurophilosopher, his research integrates phenomenologically inspired philosophy of mind with neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy.

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