Workshop:
Normativity of AI

The recent explosion of interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has brought with it a host of philosophical questions. Debates continue over the moral status of AI systems, their impact on social practices and institutions, and the extent to which they may, or may not, be capable of meaningful linguistic understanding and action. Can AI systems genuinely participate in normative practices, or do they merely simulate them? Can they be said to act, speak, reason, predict, or make claims in any substantive sense? More broadly, what kinds of norms govern our interactions with AI, and what kinds of norms, if any, can AI itself be subject to?

In short, these are questions about the normativity of AI systems.

This workshop brings together scholars working from a range of philosophical perspectives – including philosophy of language, social philosophy, philosophy of technology, and neo-Aristotelian philosophy – to explore these issues in depth. Through talks and critical discussions across traditions and methodologies, we hope to shed light on what the normativity of AI is, what it is not, and why these distinctions matter for philosophy and society alike.