Program At a Glance 

Day 1 – May 16

10:00 – Welcome

Dr. Elisabeth Hildt, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology

10:15- 12:15 - Session 1

Room 2

Trust and Bias

When AI Moves Downstream
Frances Grodzinsky, Sacred Heart University, United States

Keith Miller, University of Missouri, St. Louis, United States

Marty J. Wolf, Bemidji State University, United States

Causes and Reasons – Decisions, Responsibility, and Trust in Techno-Social Interactions 
Larissa Ullmann, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Overtrust in algorithms – An online behavioral study
Philipp Schreck, Artur Klingbeil and Cassandra Grützner, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Trusting the untrustworthy- A new dimension to situating trust in artificial agents
Omkar Chattar, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

Room 2
Moral Decision-Making and AI

The Overdemandingness of AI Ethics
Susan Dwyer, University of Maryland, United States

Moral Attribution in Moral Turing Test In-Person
Jolly Thomas and Mubarak Hussain, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India

Engineering a concept of AI neutrality to protect against undue AI bias

Roxane Kurtz, University of Illinois, Springfield, United States

12:15-1:30-Lunch

1:30-3:00 Plenary Session -Helen Nissenbaum

 3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-5:15- Session 2

Room 1: Regulation of AI

Where Law and Ethics Meet: A Systematic Review of Ethics Guidelines and Proposed Legal Frameworks on AI
Désirée Martin and Michael W. Schmidt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Governance Conflicts and Public Court Records
Kyra Milan Abrams and Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United S tates

Engineering a 'Future of Work': The Politics and Ethics of Robotics and AI Research
Yunus Dogan Telliel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States

Framing Effects in the Operationalization of Differential Privacy Systems as Code-Driven Law
Jeremy Seeman, Pennsylvania State University, United States

Room 2: AI Agency

Does it (morally) matter whether the AI machine is conscious?
Kamil Cekiera, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Do we have Procreative Obligations to AI Superbeneficiaries?
Sherri Conklin, University of California Santa Barbara, United States

War or peace between humanity and artificial intelligence
Wolfhart Totschnig, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

Can AI determine its own future?
Aybike Tunc, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Turkey

Day 2- May 17

 9-10:30- Session 3

Room 1 Deepfakes and Hate Speech

Foundation Models, Forgeability, and Evidence in Politics
Megan Hyska, Northwestern University, United States

Deepfakes and Dishonesty

Tobias Flattery and Christian Miller, Wake Forest University, United States

Improving AI-mediated Hate Speech Detection: A Genuine Ethical Dilemma

Maren Benhrensen, University of Twente, Netherlands

Room 2: Moral Frameworks

AI ethics: a perspective from American pragmatism
Andréane Sabourin Laflamme and Frédérick Bruneault, André-Laurendeau College, Canda

What is AI Ethics? Why Codes of Conduct and normative claims need ethical reflection
Suzana Alpsancar, Paderborn University, Germany

Humanity Compatible: Aligning Autonomous AI with Kantian Respect for Humanity
Ava Thomas Wright, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

10:30-10:45-Break

10:45-12:15 Plenary-Philip Brey
                     Metaverse Ethics:  Foundations and Key Issues

12:15-1:30- Lunch

1:30-3:30 – Session 4

Room 1:  Datafication and the Digital Self

Understanding Freedom in the Age of the Machines: What does it Mean to Be Digitally Free?
Migle Laukyte, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

The Digital Alienation from The Self: An Epistemic Argument
Damian Fisher and Syed Abumusab, University of Kansas, United States

Data After Death: Remembrance and Resurrection
Alexis Elder, University of Minnesota, United States

Room 2: AI in Healthcare

Psychotherapist bots: transference and countertransference issues

Saeedeh Babaii, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: An analysis of training needs in Europe

Valentina Beretta, University of Pavia, Italy
Maria Chiara Demartini, University of Pavia, Italy
Hatim Abdulhussein, Health Education England
Marco Fisichella, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

Franziska Schoger, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

Dennis Vetter, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Blaz Zupan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ajda Pretnar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Epistemic Injustice and Algorithmic Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare
Jeffrey Byrnes and Andrew Spear, Grand Valley State University, United States

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-5:15 – Session 5

Room 1: Virtual Reality and the Digital Space

Theoretical Underpinnings of Virtual Reality: From Second Life to Meta

Kathleen Gabriels, Maastricht University, Netherlands

XR Embodiment and the changing nature of sexual harassment
Erick Ramirez, Shelby Jennett, Raghav Gupta, Santa Clara University, United States 
Jocelyn Tan, Sisu VR

An Investigation in the (In)Visibility of Shadowbanning
Amanda Pinto, Marquette University, United States

Day 3- May 18

9-10:30 – Session 6

Room 1: Interacting with AI in Social/Emotional Contexts

Beyond Turing: ethical effects of large language models
Alexei Grinbaum and Laurynas Adomaitis

Sex-bots and touch: what does it all mean for our (human) identity?
Iva Apostolova, Dominican University College, Canada

Can Large Langague Models as Chatbots be Social Agents?
Syed Abumusab, University of Kansas, United States

Room 2: Decision Support

When can a Decision Support System nudge?
Francesco Pedrazzoli, Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro and Massimiliano Badino, University of Verona

Artificial Intelligence and Moral Growth
Adam Zweber, Stanford University, United States

Rebalancing the digital convenience equation through narrative imagination
Fernando Nascimento and Anya Workman, Bowdoin, College, United States

10:30-10:45- Break

10:45-12:15 – Session 7

Room 1 Autonomous Technology

People’s Perception and Expectation of Moral Settings in Autonomous Vehicles: An Australian Case
Amir Rafiee Hugh Breakey, Yong Wu and Abdul Sattar, Griffith University, Australia

Automation, Trust, Responsibility in Algorithmic Warfare

Stefka Hristova, Michigan Technological University, United States

Toward Substantive Models of Rational Agency in the Design of Autonomous AI
Ava Thomas Wright and Jacob Sparks, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Room 2: AI in Healthcare: Data Management and Cybersecurity

Medical Devices Cybersecurity and its Impact on Human Safety. An Interdisciplinary and Transatlantic Perspective
Elisabetta Biasin and Erik Kamenjasevic, KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, Belgium

 Labor History of Health Records: On Medical Scribes and the Ethics of Automation
Sara Simon, Illinois Institute of Technology

Ethical and governance considerations for genomic data sharing in the development of medical technologies for melanoma - The iToBoS Project

Robin Renwick and Niamh Aspell, Trilateral Research Ltd., Ireland

12:15-12:30 Closing Session