Call for Papers Designed to Deceive? The Philosophy of Deepfakes A Topical Collection in Synthese An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science Guest Editor: Dan Cavedon-Taylor, The Open University Submission deadline: July 30th 2022 TOPICAL COLLECTION DESCRIPTION: Deepfakes are fabricated video and/or audio recordings created by machine-learning methods. They are highly convincing in their appearance and are widely anticipated to be used for malign, deceptive purposes. Indeed, malicious use of the technology is already a reality: In April 2020, members of Extinction Rebellion created a deepfake of the Belgian Prime Minister, Sophie Wilmès, that depicted the PM…

[NOTE: The ETGG website also includes a discussion board, with (at this writing) one post titled “Anthropomorphising AI.” –Matthew] Call for Participation The Ethics and Technology Graduate Group (ETGG) Work In Progress (WIP) 2021 Sessions Online via Zoom https://techethicsgroup.wixsite.com/tethics/events Session 1: “Vulnerability, Trust and Human-Robot Interaction” Wednesday 9th of June, 2021 – 17:00 – 18:30 CET Presenter: Zachary Daus, University of Vienna ABSTRACT: Recent attempts to engineer trustworthy robotic systems often conceive of trust in terms of predictability. Accordingly, to trust a robotic system (or a human) is to be able to predict what the robotic system (or human) will…

Call for Papers FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference – Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction Supported by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg November 15-17, 2021 Online Zoom-Meeting https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/veranstaltungen/nachwuchskonferenzen/SpoHuMa21 Easychair: https://easychair.org/cfp/SpoHuMa21 Paper submission deadline: September 3, 2021 This three-day international conference is targeted at early career researchers (Master’s students, PhD students, Post-Docs) in the area of spoken human-machine interaction who take a human-centered approach to the topic. While we would like to emphasize linguistic aspects, we also invite researchers from related fields such as psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and computer science to contribute their perspectives.…