Conference Schedule
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| Thursday | |||
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| 5:00 pm | Welcome Address and Conference Opening Tracy Stewart, Ph.D., Interim Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; Conference Co-Planners: George Aulisio, Ph.D., Dan Marenda, Ph.D., Megan Heeder, Ph.D. |
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| 5:30 pm | Keynote Address - "Staying Human in an Era of Artificial Intelligence" Joe Vukov, Ph.D., Associate Director, The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage; Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy |
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| 6:30 pm | Conference Mixer | ||
| Friday | ||||
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| MGH 206 | MGH 202 | MGH 207 | MGH 205 | |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Stephanie Longo (Penn State Scranton)- Her name is Tilly: Tilly Norwood, Hollywood, and film industry ethics in the age of AI | Griffin Kiegiel (Wayne State) - A Defense of Ethical Functionalism for Attributing Consciousness to AI | Chulhee Jun (Commonwealth U) - Revolutionizing Learning with AI tools: Practical Implications of AI-Generated MCQs | |
| 9:50 - 10:30 | Mary Broussard, Rachel Sweeney, & Nora Boyle (Bucknell) - The End of Information Literacy? Exploring Generative AI's Effects | Amelia Kahn (Seton Hall) - Bullshit without Bullshitters: How LLMs "Assert" without Intentions | Ash Lierman (Rowan) - The Information Retrofit: Generative AI's False Promise for Neurodivergent and Learning Disabled College Students | |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Andrew Henley (New Castle Pub. Lib.) & Thomas Thompson (Educaide.AI) - Points of Synergy (Libraries+ AI) | Kriszta Sajber (Misericordia) - Morally Extending Yet Morally Alienating Human-AI Systems | Amy Kuiken (Scranton) - Lost in Translation:Security mindset and the hidden cost of AI translation tools | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Robert Riter (UAlabama)- AI Generated Historical Documentation: Typologies, Methodological Considerations, and Research Ethics | Gwendolyn Reece (American) - A Humanistic Approach to AI Grounded in Virtue Ethics | Yu Zhang Stearns (Loyola MD)- Teaching World Language and Literature in the Age of AI | |
| 12:20 - 1:00 | Shauna Conway (Strategic Growth and Innovation, LLC) - Hack for Human Impact: Building Ethical AI Literacy Through Interdisciplinary, Civic Based Learning | Jonathan Pineno (PSU WB) - The Ethics of Using AI to Create Music | Jeff Dixon (Holy Cross) - Whose (Academic) Integrity Now? | |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Stephanie Monahan (Utica), Sarah Bugbee (Utica), Sarah Wolle (Utica), Doreen Rogers (SUNY Canton), Christine Varner (Commonwealth U), Marsela Mehkic (Utica) - The Frequency and Correlates of GAI Among Nursing Students and Theories That May Guide Their Decision Making | Linda Ballinger, Bethann Rea, & Ruth Tillman (PSU) - AI in Moderation: Assessing the Efficacy and Inclusivity of AI-Generated Alt Text for Library Digital Collections | Jenifer Norton (Moravian) - Teaching in the Open: Reframing Academic Integrity through AI-Integrated Course Design | Emily Elstub (Cambridge) - Safeguarding the mind in an era of technological interference: against an absolute right to mental integrity |
| 2:50 - 3:30 | Meghan Pontz (Wilkes) - Integrating AI in Nursing Education: Exploring Faculty Perceptions and Academic Integrity | Megan Donnelly & Jennifer Slagus (West Chester) - Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Collaboration Towards an Ethical Curricula: AI Literacy as a Dimension of Information Literacy | Eric Holmes (UMass - Amherst) - The Ethics of Prompt Injection | |
| 3:40 - 4:20 | Kate Cummings & Sylvia Orner (Scranton) - AI Literacy in Action: Frameworks and Learning Spaces for Ethical Engagement | Patrick Knight (Franciscan) - Tourniquet: An Argument for Academic Institutions to Categorically Ban the use of AI | Greta Keiper-Blake (Misericordia) - A Framework for the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Marketing | |
| 4:30 - 5:10 | Veronica Douglas & Edward Gloor & Natalia Kapacinskas (UHouston) - Reassurance, Certainty, Control: Critiquing GenAI's Construction of Authority | Krisy Elrod (Scranton) - AI, Equity, and the Ethics of Access: Designing Inclusive and Safe Spaces for Learning and Collaboration | Ken Weidner (St. Joe's) - Should AI Firms and Their Bot Products Be Considered "Potentially Responsible Parties"? | |
| 5:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS - "Tools and Virtues: AI Ethics and Social Practices" Paul Scherz, Ph.D., Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology, Notre Dame University; Program Chair, Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab; Member, Vatican Centre for Digital Culture’s AI Research Group |
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| 6:30 | Conference Dinner | |||
| Saturday | ||||
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| 9:00 - 9:50 | Conference Plenary - Confronting the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Discussion Megan Heeder, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Scranton |
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| MGH 206 | MGH 202 | MGH 207 | MGH 205 | |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | Edward Lenzo (Muhlenberg) - Encountering Artificial Others? Phenomenologies of alterity and human-AI interactions | Andrew Burnside (NJIT) & Soomin Kim (Ewha Womans University - Seoul) - On the Argumentative Landscape of Artificial Intelligence | Matthew Schneider (Holy Apostles) - A Catholic Defense of Prohibiting Superintelligence | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Tiffany Petricini (PSU Erie) - The Algorithmic Condition: Rethinking Moral Formation in the Age of Predictive Media | Joseph Strubeck (King's, Scranton Diocese) - The Normative Incompatibility of Artificial Intelligence with the Catholic Intellectual Tradition | Marie Heath (Loyola MD) - The Ethics of AI in Education: Frameworks for Discernment | Tatiana Lysova (U Milan - Bicocca) - Using AI for dissent suppression: The case of Russia |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Widayne Hamdach (St. Peter's) - The Impact of AI on Democracy and World Order - Paired panel but other panelist dropped | Jeffrey Dueck (St. Peter's) - Pragmatic Humanism for Hurari's AI Nexus | Henry Curtis (Albany - Pharm) - The "Doctor" is In: On Chatbots in Medicine | Marcelius Braxton (PSU) - When AI Meets the Pennsylvania Constitution: Fairness, Justice, and Environmental Rights |
| 12:20 - 1:00 | Lunch | |||
| 1:10 - 1:50 | Ryan Struyk (CNN) - A Journalist's Blueprint for AI and Christianity | Jennifer Tudor (St. Joe's) - The ethics of generative AI in scientific writing and communication: A moving target | Gabriel Forthofer (Boston Co.) - Incomputable Limits on Superintelligence Safety: Chaitin's Ω, Gödelian Paradoxes, and the Ethics of Unknowable Risk | |
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Gordon Purves & Christine Susienka (Sacred Heart) - Dangerous Optime and Promising Hope Christine Susienka & Gordon Purves - Dirty Hands and Degraded Dignity: The Future of AI |
Charles Freiberg (UCF) - A Case Against Building or Using AI-Systems: AI, the Environment, and the Legacy of Pope Francis | Crystal Boyce (George Mason) - Saving Spoons, Shifting Systems: Generative AI as Disability Accommodation and Ethical Praxis | Alessandro Rovati (Belmont Abbey) Live Not By Fear: Grades and Theological Education in the Age of AI |
| 2:50 - 3:30 | Naomi Toftness & Ryan Rebstock (CT State) - AI for the Planet: Considering Energy Use and When to Best Use AI | Esther Berry (Franciscan) - The Antipersonalist Virtues-Ethics of AI Deathbots | Edgar Valdez (St. Peter's) - Artificial Untintelligence: Truncating Inquiry in The Age of Large Language Models | John Hunter (Hunter) - Crossing the Bar: How AI Requires us to rethink the 'Human' |
| 3:40 - 4:00 |
CLOSING REMARKS |
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