Robots are a curious sort of thing. On the one hand, they are designed and manufactured technological artifacts. They are things. Yet, and on the other hand, these things are not quite like other things. They seem to have social presence. They are able to talk and interact with us. And many are designed to […]

Join us for a conversation with the scholar activists at the Venezuelan Observatory of Political Ecology. Register here!

Join us for a talk by Marissa Nichols of Emory University on Nursing and Indigenous Health in Rural Mexico. Register here!

Please join William Freeman for a talk around the role of higher education in/and prison. Released from prison in 2018 after serving 20 years of his life-plus-20-years sentence, Freeman is currently a Bloomberg Fellow and a MPA candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He founded the Redistributing Agency and Wealthy Trust and […]

Nov. 1, 2024 10 am to 1 pm Student Union Room 200 Please RSVP here so we can order food!   Agenda 10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction to CHAIS (Center for Humane AI Studies) (Gordon Hull, Philosophy and Ethics Center) 10:15-10:45 Public Attitudes about AI (Jason Windett, POLS and SDS; Cori Faklaris, Software and Information Systems) 10:45-11:15 […]

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Jada Wiggleton-Little (Asst. Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University): “Pain and the Limits of Epistemic Injustice” Register here for in person (11:30, Cone 210A, lunch provided) or here for Webinar (12:00)

CHAIS – The Center for Humane AI Studies – is an interdisciplinary research group at UNC Charlotte dedicated to exploring the implications of Artificial Intelligence from a humanities and social science perspective. Check out the website here.

Join us for a presentation by Travis N. Rieder, PhD; Director, Master of Bioethics Program at John Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics: “America’s Opioid Dilemma: Ethical Prescribing During a Drug Overdose Crisis” Register here for the in-person event (11:30am-12:45pm) and here for Webinar (12:00pm-12:45pm)

Join us for a presentation by Giorgia Pozzi, Ph.D. Candidate, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands: “Opioid Risk Scoring: Epistemic Injustice in Machine Learning-Mediated Pain Management” Register  here for Webinar (11:15am-12:15pm)

Join us for a presentation by Travis N. Rieder, PhD; Director, Master of Bioethics Program at John Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics: “Catastrophe Ethics: How to Live in a World on Fire” – Click the link for an excerpt adapted by TIME Magazine:  How to Make Tough Choices in a MorallyExhausting World Register here for the in-person event […]

Join us for a presentation by Bethany Johnson, Doctoral Candidate at the University of South Carolina: “Daily Dragging Themselves Up the Stairs: The Health Aftermath of Twentieth Century Influenza and Twenty-first Century COVID” Register here for the in-person event and here for Webinar (11:15am-12:15pm)