Name: Prof. Rein Raud & prof. Anders Sandberg | WYKŁADY GOŚCINNE
Start: 2026-03-02T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-02T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Szamarzewskiego 89C, 60-658 Poznan, Poland

$Prof. Rein Raud & prof. Anders Sandberg | WYK\u0141ADY GO\u015aCINNE$

Centrum Nowych Kierunków w Filozofii Wydziału Filozoficznego UAM zaprasza na dwa wykłady gościnne!
02.03.2026 r.. godz. 15:00
prof. Rein Raud (Talinn University) - „Towards a processual theory of power”
03.03.2026 r., godz. 17:00
prof. Anders Sandberg (Institute of Futures Studies) - „Law, Liberty and Leviathan: human autonomy in a world of existential risk and artificial intelligence”
Oba wykłady odbędą się w języku angielskim w budynku C (Kampus Ogrody UAM) w sali im. prof. Kazimierza Ajdukiewicza (215).
INFORMACJE O WYKŁADACH:
Wykład nr 1:
Rein Raud (ur. 1961) to estoński filozof, kulturoznawca, językoznawca i pisarz; Distinguished Professor of Asian and Cultural Studies Uniwersytetu Tallińskiego i pierwszy rektor tej uczelni. Jest autorem takich książek jak Practices of Selfhood (z Zygmuntem Baumanem), Meaning in Action: Outline of an Integral Theory of Culture, Being in Flux: A Post-Anthropocentric Ontology of the Self, czy The Linguistic Carnival of Thought. Poliglota, tłumacz poezji japońskiej i były prezydent European Association for Japanese Studies, autor cenionych i przekładanych powieści.
Abstrakt: Most currently influential theories of ethics and politics rely unquestioningly on the axiomatics of the Aristotelian tradition of metaphysics that has underpinned the majority of Western philosophical systems throughout ages. In my talk, I will try to sketch the conceptual premises of an ethics and politics that builds on a processual worldview, which in Western thought has been a minority tradition, but has had a much greater prominence in the philosophical systems of Asia. In particular, I will approach the concept of power from an anti-essentialist and dynamic point of view, and hope to demonstrate the potential of process thought for those practical domains of philosophy that have usually eschewed ontological debates.
Wykład odbędzie się 02.03.2026 r. o godz. 15:00 w sali 215.
Wykład nr 2:
Anders Sandberg (ur. 1972) to szwedzki futurolog, filozof i neurology, przedstawiciel transhumanizmu. Obecnie związany z Institute of Futures Studies, a wcześniej z Future of Humanity Institute przy Oxford University, to jeden z twórców The Transhumanist Declaration z 1998. Posiada doktorat z neurologii komputerowej uzyskany na Stockholm University, i zajmuje się m.in. neuroetyką, cognitive enhancement, emulacją mózgu oraz AI. Autor takich książek jak Whole Brain Emulation (z Nickiem Bostromem) czy Superhuman: Exploring Human Enhancement from 600 BCE to 2050 (wieloautorska), w toku ponad 1000-stronicowa Grand Futures: Thinking Truly Long Term.
Abstrakt: What are legal systems? One way of thinking about them, inspired by the Scandinavian legal realist tradition, is as a form of extended cognition for solving tricky coordination problems in society, giving us peace and prosperity (and power to some). It is a kind of "AI" platform running on human minds and pieces of paper, powered by human autonomy and our propensity to follow norms. This is also true for many other coordinating institutions like markets and government. But real AI seems able to perform many functions going into such institutions - at first by automating simple decisions or low-level processing, but plausibly gradually being able to solve the coordination problems far better than humans. If we want to get the goods, it is rational to hand over more and more funtions to AI. We may have pressing reasons to increase human coordination ability to meet growing existential risks (that ironically may include risk from AI). But even if we solve the AI alignment problem well, we may have another problem: human autonomy in such a cyborg system is no longer necessary, and may actually be suboptimal. That appears worrisome. I will discus whether there a way out of this conclusion, and invite a conversation about how to design ahead to handle such "second order alignment" problems that involve setting up human society in an AI future.
Wykład odbędzie się 03.03.2026 r. o godz. 17:00 w sali 215.