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)