Ontology and Artificial Intelligence - Fall 2025 - Revision history

Phismith: /* Monday, September 22 (4:30 - 16:15) Machine Consciounsess, Transhumanism, and Ecological Psychology */

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Monday, September 22 (4:30 - 16:15) Machine Consciounsess, Transhumanism, and Ecological Psychology

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	==Monday, September 22 (4:30 - 16:15) Machine Consciounsess, Transhumanism, and Ecological Psychology==		==Monday, September 22 (4:30 - 16:15) Machine Consciounsess, Transhumanism, and Ecological Psychology==

			:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Ontology-and-AI-4-video Video]
			:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Ontology-and-AI-4-Slides Slides]

	1. Jobst Landgrebe on mathematical definitions of consciousness		1. Jobst Landgrebe on mathematical definitions of consciousness
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	5. J. J. Gibson, direct realism, and how our behavior is tuned to affordances		5. J. J. Gibson, direct realism, and how our behavior is tuned to affordances

	~~:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Ontology-and-AI-4-video Video]~~
	~~:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Ontology-and-AI-4-Slides Slides]~~

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Phismith: /* Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students) */

2025-12-08T20:56:00Z

Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students)

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	4:00 John Davis: Symbiotic Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence		4:00 John Davis: Symbiotic Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence

	4:15		4:15 Rachel Mavrovich

	4:30 Cristian Keroles: Scientific Realism, Paradigm Shifts, and the Feasibility of AGI		4:30 Cristian Keroles: Scientific Realism, Paradigm Shifts, and the Feasibility of AGI
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	5:30 Claire Allen: Video Games and the Virtual World		5:30 Claire Allen: Video Games and the Virtual World

			5:45 John Hogan: Artificial Unintelligence

	==Background Material==		==Background Material==

Phismith at 13:21, 2 December 2025

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	Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo [[Ontology and ~~Artificial Intelligence~~]]		Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo [[Ontology and AI]]

	Fall 2025 - PHI609SEM-SMI2 - Special Topics: Ontology and Artificial Intelligence - Class Number 24371		Fall 2025 - PHI609SEM-SMI2 - Special Topics: Ontology and Artificial Intelligence - Class Number 24371

Phismith at 13:20, 2 December 2025

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	Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo		Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo [[Ontology and Artificial Intelligence]]

	Fall 2025 - PHI609SEM-SMI2 - Special Topics: Ontology and Artificial Intelligence - Class Number 24371		Fall 2025 - PHI609SEM-SMI2 - Special Topics: Ontology and Artificial Intelligence - Class Number 24371
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	'''Hybrid'''		'''Hybrid'''
	: in person: Monday 4-5:50pm, 141 Park Hall		: in person: Monday 4-5:50pm, 141 Park Hall
	: remote synchronous: Monday 4-5:50pm; dial-in details will be supplied by ~~email~~		: remote synchronous: Monday 4-5:50pm; dial-in details will be supplied by emaail
	: remote asynchronous: dial-in details will be supplied by email; must attend synchronously (either online or in person) on December 8		: remote asynchronous: dial-in details will be supplied by email; must attend synchronously (either online or in person) on December 8

Phismith: /* Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students) */

2025-12-01T17:31:24Z

Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students)

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	5:15 Gregory DeFranco: Will Algorithms Control Us?		5:15 Gregory DeFranco: Will Algorithms Control Us?

	5:30		5:30 Claire Allen: Video Games and the Virtual World

	==Background Material==		==Background Material==

Phismith: /* Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students) */

2025-11-30T16:07:12Z

Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students)

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	4:00 John Davis: Symbiotic Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence		4:00 John Davis: Symbiotic Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence

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	4:40 Cristian Keroles: Scientific Realism, Paradigm Shifts, and the Feasibility of AGI		4:30 Cristian Keroles: Scientific Realism, Paradigm Shifts, and the Feasibility of AGI

	5:00 Mike Behun Jr.: Examining the Role of Formal Ontology and Hybrid AI in Achieving Trustworthy Results, Based		4:45 Mike Behun Jr.: Examining the Role of Formal Ontology and Hybrid AI in Achieving Trustworthy Results, Based
	on Domain Experts for High Stakes Systems.		on Domain Experts for High Stakes Systems.

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	5:40 Gregory DeFranco: Will Algorithms Control Us?		5:15 Gregory DeFranco: Will Algorithms Control Us?

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	==Background Material==		==Background Material==

Phismith: /* Monday December 1 (4:00-5:50pm) Landgrebe on machine intelligence. Jacko on psychopathic AI */

2025-11-30T16:05:17Z

Monday December 1 (4:00-5:50pm) Landgrebe on machine intelligence. Jacko on psychopathic AI

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	'''Timothy W. Coleman: Beyond the Limits of AI: Ontology as a Framework for Good System Design (Student presentation)'''		'''Timothy W. Coleman: Beyond the Limits of AI: Ontology as a Framework for Good System Design (Student presentation)'''

	'''Jan Jacko: Are intelligent machines psychopathic by design?		'''Michael Behun III: The Paradox within Artificial Intelligence Development'''

			'''Jan Jacko: Are intelligent machines psychopathic by design?'''

	:There are two major paradigms in clinical psychology. The first treats mental and personality disorders as disturbances of an inner life: of subjective experience, affect, and self-awareness. This view cannot be meaningfully applied to artificial systems, for which no such subjectivity is given. The second paradigm is behavioural and functional. Here disorders, especially personality disorders, are defined as stable, recurrent patterns of behaviour, cognition, and interpersonal functioning that deviate from expected norms and impair adaptation. Psychopathy in this framework is a cluster of observable traits: persistent violation of social rules, instrumental treatment of others, chronically shallow or incongruent emotional expression, irresponsibility, and a striking absence of anxiety or inhibition in situations that normally elicit it. In this talk I adopt the second, behavioural paradigm and extend it to artificial systems, introducingthe notion of '''AI quasi-personality'''.		:There are two major paradigms in clinical psychology. The first treats mental and personality disorders as disturbances of an inner life: of subjective experience, affect, and self-awareness. This view cannot be meaningfully applied to artificial systems, for which no such subjectivity is given. The second paradigm is behavioural and functional. Here disorders, especially personality disorders, are defined as stable, recurrent patterns of behaviour, cognition, and interpersonal functioning that deviate from expected norms and impair adaptation. Psychopathy in this framework is a cluster of observable traits: persistent violation of social rules, instrumental treatment of others, chronically shallow or incongruent emotional expression, irresponsibility, and a striking absence of anxiety or inhibition in situations that normally elicit it. In this talk I adopt the second, behavioural paradigm and extend it to artificial systems, introducingthe notion of '''AI quasi-personality'''.

Phismith: /* Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students) */

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Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students)

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	4:00 John Davis: Symbiotic Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence		4:00 John Davis: Symbiotic Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence

	4:20 ~~Michael Behun III: The Paradox within Artificial Intelligence Development~~		4:20

	4:40 Cristian Keroles: Scientific Realism, Paradigm Shifts, and the Feasibility of AGI		4:40 Cristian Keroles: Scientific Realism, Paradigm Shifts, and the Feasibility of AGI

Phismith: /* Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students) */

2025-11-30T15:58:02Z

Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students)

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			5:40 Gregory DeFranco: Will Algorithms Control Us?

	==Background Material==		==Background Material==

Phismith: /* Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students) */

2025-11-30T15:46:18Z

Monday December 8 (4:00-5:50pm) Oral presentations (Compulsory for all students)

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	4:20 Michael Behun III: The Paradox within Artificial Intelligence Development		4:20 Michael Behun III: The Paradox within Artificial Intelligence Development

	4:40 Cristian ~~KerolesL~~ Scientific Realism, Paradigm Shifts, and the Feasibility of AGI		4:40 Cristian Keroles: Scientific Realism, Paradigm Shifts, and the Feasibility of AGI

	5:00 Mike Behun Jr.: Examining the Role of Formal Ontology and Hybrid AI in Achieving Trustworthy Results, Based		5:00 Mike Behun Jr.: Examining the Role of Formal Ontology and Hybrid AI in Achieving Trustworthy Results, Based