07/05/2025
Eveniment de excepție la Academia Română!
AI and Humanity
Interdisciplinary Conference
8-9 May 2025
Conveners: Sorin Antohi, Gheorghe Ștefan, Paul-Andrei Păun
Partners: Master Communications International, Muzeul Municipiului București, and ClubLeaderSpace
Romanian Academy
Calea Victoriei 125, Bucharest
To assess the vast, transdisciplinary, highly topical theme of AI and Humanity, an interdisciplinary conference is convened on 8-9 May 2025.
This academic, professional, and public event builds on the successful experience of a previous conference, The Challenge of AI, under the aegis of the Academia Europaea, and with support from the Romanian Academy. It took place at World Trade Center, Bucharest, on 11-12 June 2024, was organized by Master Communications International and sponsored by several companies; its details, videos, and related texts are at www.mastercommunications.ro.
This time around, we meet under the double aegis of the Academia Europaea (AE) and of the Romanian Academy (RA), in conjunction with the inauguration on 9 May of the AE Bucharest Regional Knowledge Hub, a strategic project of the two academies with partners from several countries, ranging from national academies to universities, research institutes, global academic networks and organizations. It is our aim to continue to develop a series of conferences and workshops bearing the same generic title, AI and Humanity, as well as a network of institutions and companies that could collaborate in the long term. The conference is also connected to the Ideas in the Agora Series, which includes some 110 public events (dialogues and conferences), placed since 2024 under the aegis of the Academia Europaea. More at Idei în Agora – Muzeul Municipiului Bucuresti.
The current event has two parts: A. An academic part, open to the public. B. A professional part, for registered participants only. The videos are to become available online in various places, including the homepage of the AE Bucharest Hub, www.acadeurobucharest.eu.
A. 8 May, 13:30-18:30, Aula
13:30-14:00 Registration
I. 14:00-16:00
Sorin Antohi, Moderator and Opening Remarks, AI and Humanity: Co-Evolution or Survival of the Fittest?
Sebastian Burduja, Opening Remarks
Gheorghe Ștefan, The Information Realm and the Great Chain of Being
Paul-Andrei Păun, Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present, Future
Mircea Dumitru, LLMs and Speech Acts. What Is at Stake?
Viorica Pătrăucean, LLMs and Cultural Technologies
Traian Rebedea, Safe and Controllable Human-LLM Interactions
Break 16:00-16:30
II. 16:30-18:30
Sorin Antohi, Moderator and Closing Remarks
Hardy Schloer, Implications of AI for Social Security, Human Progress, and Survival
Ion Petre, Unravelling Academic Success: AI Insights from the PISA 2022 Data
Florin-Călin Păun, Qualificative AI (QuAI): Bringing Dubito ergo cogito into
the Machine
Marius Leordeanu, Artificial Intelligence in Search for Humanity
Ștefan N. Constantinescu, European Academies and Scientific Advice to the European Commission: From Cancer Screening to AI and One Health Governance
Moshe Idel, Golem and the Beginning of Cybernetics via Zoom
B. 9 May, 10:00-13:00, Clubul Academicienilor
In Romanian
Prof. Dragoș Huru, Moderator
9:30-10:00 Welcome coffee
10:00-13:00 Presentations, Interventions, Discussion with:
Dr. Florin Munteanu
Prof. Petre Roman
Laurențiu Viorel Gîdei
Alexandru Bodi
Marian Rusu
Veronica Ștefan
Dr. Honorius Circa
Cristian Sima
Elena Radu
Alexandru Mironov
Participants
1. Sorin Antohi, Academia Europaea
2. Alexandru Bodi, Partner, DAO1
3. Sebastian Burduja, Minister of Energy
4. Dr. Honorius Circa, Director, ASF (Authority of Financial Surveillance)
5. Prof. Ștefan N. Constantinescu, UC Louvain, Brussels, and University of Oxford, Chair of SAPEA Board
6. Prof. Mircea Dumitru, Vice-President of the Romanian Academy
7. Laurențiu Viorel Gîdei, State Secretary, MEDAT (Ministry of Economy, Digitalization, Entrepreneurship, and Tourism)
8. Prof. Dragoș Huru, ASE (Academy of Economic Sciences)
9. Prof. Moshe Idel, emeritus, Hebrew University; Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem
10. Dr. Marius Leordeanu, UPB, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
11. Alexandru Mironov, Director, Știință și Tehnică
12. Dr. Florin Munteanu, Director, Center for Complexity Studies, Bucharest
13. Dr. Viorica Pătrăucean, Google DeepMind
14. Dr. Florin-Călin Păun, ARESIA, ONERA
15. Dr. Paul-Andrei Păun, Director, AI Institute of the Romanian Academy
16. Prof. Ion Petre, University of Turku
17. Elena Radu, lawyer
18. Dr. Traian Rebedea, UPB and NVIDIA
19. Prof. Petre Roman, President, Swiss UMEF-Geneva
20. Marian Rusu, ChatIA
21. Hardy Schloer, CEO Alpha Centauri
22. Cristian Sima, professor, businessman
23. Prof. Gheorghe Ștefan, Romanian Academy and UPB (Bucharest Polytechnic University)
24. Veronica Ștefan, expert, Council of Europe
25. Dr. Varujan Vosganian, Dr. Varujan Vosganian, President, Writers’ Union
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