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Conference Schedule

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Thursday
5:00 PM Welcome Address and Conference Opening - Tracy Stewart, Ph.D., Interim Provost / SVPAA; Conference Co-Planners, George Aulisio, Ph.D., Dan Marenda, Ph.D., Megan Heeder, Ph.D.
5:30 PM Keynote Address - Joe Vukov, Ph.D., Associate Director, The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage and Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, "Staying Human in an Era of Artificial Intelligence"
6:30 PM Conference Mixer
Friday
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9:00 - 9:40 AM 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 Behaviorism for Attributing Consciousness to AI Chulhee Jun (Commonwealth U) - Revolutionizing Learning with AI tools: Practical Implications of AI-Generated MCQs
9:50 - 10:30 AM Mary Broussard, Rachel Sweeney, & Nora Boyle (Bucknell) - The End of Information Literacy? Exploring Generative AI's Effects Amelia Kahn (NYU) - 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 AM 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: The hidden cost of AI translation tools
11:30 - 12:10 PM 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 Stearns (Loyola MD)- Teaching World Language and Literature in the Age of AI
12:20 - 1:00 PM 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 PM Lunch
2:00 - 2:40 PM Stephanie Monahan, Sarah Bugbee, & Sarah Wolle (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
2:50 - 3:30 PM 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 PM 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 PM 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”? Antonio Amuza (U Bucharest) - Algorithmic Sentiment and Symbolic Power: How Romanian and Moldovan Media Represented Donald Trump and the United States Before and After the 2024 Election
5:30 PM Keynote Speaker Paul Scherz, Ph.D., Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, "Tools and Virtues: AI Ethics and Social Practices"
6:30 PM Conference Dinner
Saturday
9:00 - 9:50 AM Conference Plenary - Featuring an All-Conference Discussion facilitated by Megan Heeder, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Scranton
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10:00 - 10:40 AM Victor Temprano (Ind. Scholar) - Conversations with the Machine: Historical Personas and the Illusion of Authenticity 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 AM 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) - Using AI for dissent suppression: The case of Russia
11:40 - 12:20 PM Widayne Hamdach (St. Peter's) - The Impact of AI on Democracy and World Order 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 PM Lunch
1:10 - 1:50 PM 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 Emily Elstub (Cambridge) - Safeguarding the mind in an era of technological interference: against an absolute right to mental integrity Gabriel Forthofer (Boston Co.) - Incomputable Limits on Superintelligence Safety: Chaitin's Ω, Gödelian Paradoxes, and the Ethics of Unknowable Risk
2:00 - 2:40 PM 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 PM Naomi Toftness & Ryan Rebstock (CT State) - AI for the Planet: Consideing 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 PM Closing

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