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SCIoI at Oxford Berlin Colloquium on AI Ethics

Beit Room, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG

The 2025 Oxford Berlin colloquium on AI ethics will be held in Oxford and bring together scholars and professionals to discuss a variety of topics, hosted by Dr Caroline Green (Oxford) and Dr Luise Muller (Freie Universitat Berlin). AI technologies, from large language models to self-driving cars, raise fundamental philosophical questions. The aim of the

Anita Keshmirian (Forward College, Berlin): “Many Minds, Diverging Morals: Human Groups vs. AI in Moral Decision-Making”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Moral judgments are inherently social, shaped by interactions with others in everyday life. Despite this, psychological research has rarely examined the impact of social interactions on these judgments. In our study, we explored the role of group dynamics in moral decision-making by having small groups (4-5 participants) evaluate moral dilemmas first individually, then collectively, and

Mary Ellen Foster (University of Glasgow), “Face-to-Face Conversation With Socially Intelligent Robots”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

When humans talk to each other face-to-face, they use their voices, faces, and bodies together in a rich, multimodal, continuous, interactive process. For a robot to participate fully in this sort of natural, face-to-face conversation in the real world, it must also be able not only to understand the social signals of its human partners,