Call for Participation:

“Chatbots: Help Some/Harm Others. Might Destroy Humanity”
A free online lecture by Allen J. Frances (Duke University School of Medicine, USA)
November 25, 2025 at 17:00 CET (8:00 PST)
https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=index&L=PHILOS-L&O=D&P=112304712

The registration for the second lecture of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series – see: https://ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/iapis_en – (Season 7) is open. We will be hosting Allen Frances (Duke University School of Medicine, USA) with a talk titled: “Chatbots: Help Some/Harm Others. Might Destroy Humanity.”

REGISTRATION: Please feel welcome to register using this link:
https://forms.gle/xhrRgQ6vfQRgQhcR7

ABSTRACT:

Chatbots are the most consequential invention in human history. They have a wonderful potential to help some patients, but have also proven to be remarkably harmful to others. There is also an appreciable risk that we are mindlessly creating our evolutionary replacements.

OUR GUEST:

Allen J. Frances is Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He served as chair of the APA task force responsible for the development and revision of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Allen Frances is also the founding editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders and the Journal of Psychiatric Practice, as well as the author or co-author of numerous books, including Saving Normal (2013), Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis (2013), and Twilight of American Sanity (2017).

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY INTERDISCIPLINARY SERIES [from https://ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/iapis_en]

The Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS) is an international series of online events organized by the Institute of Applied Psychology (Jagiellonian University) in cooperation with:

• Philosophical Psychology journal
• The Collaborating Centre for Values-based practice in Health and Social Practice, Understanding Personality Disorders Network (St Catherine’s College, Oxford)
• the Open Seminars on Philosophy and Psychiatry Foundation
• Filozofuj! magazine

The IAPIS series is focused on the cross-disciplinary area between psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and philosophy and promotes open discussion and the process of sharing and disseminating knowledge between different disciplines. The events organized feature invited experts from all over the world and are free and open to all.