2024 Rome Annual Seminar – Human Freedom at the test of AI and Neurosciences

Rome, 2–5 September 2024

The seminar was hosted by LUMSA University within the framework of the international project New Humanism at the time of Neurosciences and Artificial Intelligence (NHNAI – coordinated by Lyon Catholic University under the aegis of the International Federation of Catholic Universities) and in collaboration with the Ecumenical French-speaking Association of Moral Theologians and Ethics Experts (ATEM). The last session of the conference took place at Notre Dame Rome.

Detailed programme and practical information here.

Download the poster here

Greetings

Francesco Bonini, Rector of LUMSA University (Italy) (video)

Silvia Dall’Olio, Director of the University of Notre Dame Rome (USA) (video)

Introductions

Mathieu Guillermin, Coordinator of NHNAI project, Lyon Catholic University (France) (video)

Dominique Coatanea, President of ATEM, Facultés Loyola Paris (France) (video)

Stefano Biancu, Coordinator of the PhD program “Contemporary Humanism”, LUMSA University (Italy) (video)

Keynote lectures (click on the title to watch the video)

Mario De Caro,University of Roma Tre (Italy), The problem of Freedom and today’s challenges

Dominique Lambert, University of Namur (Belgium), Ethics of AI

Thierry Magnin, Catholic University of Lille (France), Christian Thought, Humanism, AI and Neurosciences

Patricia Churchland, University of San Diego (USA), Neurosciences and Human Freedom

Fiorella Battaglia, University of Salento (Italy), Democracy and Education at the Time of AI and Neurosciences

Laura Palazzani, LUMSA-University of Rome (Italy), Health at the Time of AI and Neurosciences

PhD Students’ Presentations (click on the title to watch the video)

• Marco Tassella, LUMSA-UCLy: The Paradox of Moral Luck: Testing Free Will and Responsibility Against Chance
• François Deshors, UCLy-LUMSA: Human being and artificial intelligence: prospects and consequences of a hypothetical conflict
• Alessia Cadelo, LUMSA-UCP: The power of algorithms to redefine human autonomy
• Pierangelo Bianco, Lumsa-UCP: The search for Habitable Intelligence: George Lindbeck’s contribution to AI Debate
• Giammarco Basile, LUMSA-PUC: Flaminio Piccoli, the DC and Centrist Democrat International (CDI) 
• Francesca Fioretti, LUMSA- UCP: Promoting the development of competences for active citizenship in Italy: from school organization to classroom practices
• Francesco Marcelli, LUMSA: Youth association and the training of the governing class: the case of Catholic university students in Italy and internationally
  
• Matteo Mostarda, LUMSA: Integral Human Development in Enrico Mattei’s strategy for Italy
• Marco Valerio, LUMSA-UCP: Learning to teach civic and citizenship education and education for sustainable development during pre-service teacher training
• Costanza Vizzani, LUMSA-PUC: The theoretical foundations of the debate on reproductive technologies
• Sarah Horton, ICP-ACU: Alienation and Self-Knowledge in Maine de Biran
• Juhani Steinmann, ICP-LUMSA: The Coming God. Soteriological Figures in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Heidegger
• Federico Rudari, UCP-LUMSA: Embodied perception and spatial sense-making: from phenomenology to aesthetics
• Tomaso Pignocchi, LUMSA-ICP: Language and soteriology: the concept of liberation in Wittgenstein and Buddhist philosophies
• Orlando Garcia, ICP-LUMSA: Human freedom challenged by AI and neuroscience
• Enrico Di Meo, LUMSA-ICP: Mechanism and Free Will: a possible Convergence Hypothesis
• Flavia Chieffi, LUMSA-UCly: The role of «symbolic consciousness» in Virgilio Melchiorre’s philosophy
• Cecilia Benassi, LUMSA: The embodiment of form – Symbolic between poetry and technology
• Gael Trottmann-Calame, ICP- LUMSA: An all-too-modern modernity: a genealogical investigation