rTAIM Seminars:

Forthcoming:
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#28 | Hanna Poikonen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) & Tuukka Toivonen (Loughborough University London, United Kingdom) | 27 May 2026 | 10:00am-11:00am (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Embodied sovereignty and the phenomenology of enhancing our health and intelligence via wearable AI technologies" | [Link: here | ID Teams: 315365384555578 | Password: Ha9bL3Ke]


Previous:

#27 | Anita Ho  (University of British Columbia, Canada) | 22 April 2026 | 6:00pm-7:00pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Ethical Dimensions of AI Health Monitoring as a Gendered Practice" | [[Link: here | ID Teams:  380943280593279 | Password: AA3Td6AH]

#26 | Rocío Martín Istilart  (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) | 27 March 2026 | 5:00pm-6:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Dialogical Models and Counterfactual Questions for Epistemic Robustness in XAI" | [Recording not available; presentation available: here]

#25 | Ricardo Ramírez-Barrantes (Universidad Andrés Bello) | 25 February 2026 | 5:00pm-6:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "The Role of AI in Medicine: Computer Vision and Digital Pathology in Cancer Diagnosis" | [Recording: youtube]

#24 | Maira de Cinque  (University of Canada West) | 21 January 2026 | 5:00pm-6:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Linguistic Self-Correction in the Age of AI" | [Recording: youtube]

# December 2025: pause, no seminar.

#23 | Mariana Olezza  (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) | 25 November 2025 | 7:00pm-8:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and traits of integrated Psychopathy: a Comparative Analysis" | [Recording: youtube]

#22 | Markus Rüther  (Jülich Research Centre and University of Bonn, Germany) | 15 October 2025 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Meaningfulness Gaps in Medical AI" | [Recording: not available]

#21 | Nadia Primic  (Heidelberg University, Germany) | 21 September 2025 | 2:00pm-3:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Trustworthy AI: conceptual confusion or regulative principle?" | [Recording: not available]

# August 2025: pause, no seminar.

#20 | Diana Perez  (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) | 16 July 2025 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Amplifying AI's problems in healthcare: the case of mental health" | [Recording: youtube]

#19 | Gustavo Oliva  (UNISINOS, Brazil) | 18 June 2025 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Patient preference predictors and the rationality of belief" |  [Recording: youtube]

#18 | Omowumi Ogunyemi (Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria) | 14 May 2025 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Will AI be my doctor? Dependence and AI in healthcare" |  [Recording: youtube]

#17 | Aisha Sobey and Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge, UK) | 29 April 2025 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "The Burden of AI Pain Management Apps: Who is benefitting?" | [ cancelled]

# March 2025: pause, no seminar.

#16 | Caio Portella (Uni. São Paulo, Brazil) | 19 February 2025 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Artificial Intelligence and Traditional Medicines: Bridging Ethics, Culture, and Innovation in Global Health" |  [Recording: youtube]

#15 | Silvia Dadà (Uni. Pisa, Italy)) | 20 December 2024 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Digital medicine. Facing new forms of autonomies and vulnerabilities" | [Recording: youtube]

#14 | Marco A. Azevedo (UNISINOS, Brazil)) | 20 November 2024 | 2:00pm-3:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Could we share medical decisions with a Chatbot? Or why people will still prefer real doctors to trading them for AI systems" |  [Recording: youtube]

​#13 | Jordan Wadden (Unity Health Toronto) | 30 October 2024 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Ethical Agent or Mere Tool?: A Cautioning Argument for 'Moral' Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare" | [Recording: youtube]

​#12 | Francesco Prinzi (University of Palermo) | 24 July 2024 | 2:00pm-3:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "From Theory to Practice: Overcoming Challenges in Implementing AI-Based CDSSs in Healthcare" | [Recording: youtube]

​#11 | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University) | 26 June2024 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "The Moral AI and How We Get There" | [Recording: youtube]

​#10 | Edmund Ugar (University of Johannesbur) | 27 May 2024 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "In Light of Medical Machine Learning Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: African Agency Reconsidered" | [Recording: youtube]
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​#9 | Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University) | 30 April 2024 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Reframing AI in Clinical Decision Making: a Critical Sociological Approach to Historical Ontology" | [Recording: youtube] 

​#8 | David Leucas  (Federal Uni. Rio Janeiro) | 21 March 2024 | 3:00pm-4:30pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "The Ethics of Facial Expression Recognition in AI" | [Recording: youtube] 

# January/February 2024: Winter pause, no seminar.

#7 | Jaroslav Malík  (Uni. Hradec Králové) | 6 December 2023 | 2:30pm-4:00pm (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Explanatory AI in Medicine: The need for pragmatics of XAI" | [Recording: youtube] 

#6 | Klaus Gärtner (Uni. Lisbon) | 15 November | 11h-12h30 (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Conscious AI in Medicine - Is that really a good Idea?" | [Recording: youtube] 

#5 | Georgina Mills (Uni. Tilburg) | 11 October | 14h30-16h (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Looping effects in medical kinds: Fast-moving targets" | [Recording: youtube]

#4 | Yves Saint James Aquino (Uni. Wollongong) | 13 September | 10h-11h30 (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Ethics of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Professional Perspectives" | [Recording: youtube]

# August 2023: Summer pause, no seminar.

#3 | Amitabha Palmer (Uni. Texas) | 19 July 2023 | 14h30 - 16h (Lisbon Time Zone) | "From Theory to Practice: The Ethics of Deploying AI in Healthcare Settings" | [Recording: youtube]

#2 | Karim Zaouaq (Uni. Fez) | 21 June 2023 | 14h30 - 16h (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Artificial intelligence in Medicine: Reflecting on Responsibility in Healthcare Delivery" | [Recording: youtube].

#1 | Steven S. Gouveia (Uni. Porto) | 17 May 2023 | 14h30 - 16h (Lisbon Time Zone) | "Rebuilding Trust in Black-Box Algorithmic Decision-Making: the Case of Medicine" | [Recording: youtube].

All info: here.

Activites: 
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º [PT] Entrevista no âmbito do projecto Understanding Artificial Intelligence da Universidade de São Paulo, por Veridiana Cordeiro, Julho 2024 (acesso: aqui). 

º [ENG] New Authored Book published: "The Odyssey of the Mind" (2024) (available: here) 

º [PT] Publicação de novo livro "A Odisseia da Mente" (2024), disponível na Amazon (acesso: aqui). 

​º [ENG] Recording of the keynote talk at MindScapes 2023 (Bucharest) on Consciousness , Ateneul Român (2/06/2023) (recording: here).

º [ENG] New invited Article "Medicine Unleashed: The AI Odyssey" in the SHARE Philosophy Foundation Magazine, December 2023 (available: here) 

​º [ENG] Recording of the MindScapes 2023 (Bucharest) Panel on Artificial Intelligence with Georg Northoff, Volha Litvinets, hosted by Robert Chis Ciure, Ateneul Român (2/06/2023) (recording: here).

​º [ENG] Organization of the 2nd International Conference on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, University of Porto (28-30/11/2023) (more info: here).

º [PT] Participation at the podcast PóDeSer [Psychiatry], Portuguese Association of Psychiatry Interns. (access: here).

º [ENG] Participation at the podcast Coffee Chat with Quin Wills (more episodes here)

​º [PT] Magazine Article on the International Workshop on Free- Will (more info: here and via Justiça TV: here). 

​º [ENG] Coorganization of the International Workshop on Free-Will (with Bárbara de Brito e Sousa | Universidade Lusíada, (25/ 09/2023) (more info: here).

​º [ENG] New edited book published: "Predictive Minds: Old Problems and New Challenges" (2023) (more info: here).

º [PT]  Interivew for the Revista APS on Artificial Intelligence and Ethics (Access: here).

​º [ENG] Cerimony Prize "Honorary Professor" of the Faculdad Medicina Andrés Bello, Vinã del Mar, Chile (alongside Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose).

​º [ENG] Recording Interview for an International Documentary on Consciousness and Artifiicial Intelligence produced by Mind Lifeline Association. 

º [PT]  Interivew for the JPN on Technological Immortality  in the context of the debate at the Porto Coliseum (Access: here). 

º [PT] Participation at the podcast Simple Question [Pergunta Simples], epsiode "Is Artificial Intelligence a Good Doctor?". Access: here (in PT) and here (automatic translation in ENG).

º [ENG] Interview by Sarah Virgi for the IPM Monthly - Medieval Philosophy Today Magazine "Philosophy and the Public: an Interview with Steven S. Gouveia". Access: here. 

º [ENG] Participation at the podcast The Big PIcture, episode "What does it mean to be Human at the Age of Artificial Intelligence?". Access: here. 

º [ENG] Background project | AI Documentary The Age of Artificial Intelligence: the Documentary, YouTube. Access: here. 

​To be updated.

Talks: 

* 27 April 2023: “Black-Box Medicine: An Ethical Analysis” at V Jornadas Novatares, Salamanca University, Spain. Info: here.
 
* 6 May 2023: Invited Speaker at the Tec2Med Summit, Lisbon, Portugal. Info: here.

* 9 May 2023: “Sex Machina: An Ethical Analysis” at the TechSex: Exploring the Philosophical and Ethical Implications Workshop, Ghent University, Belgium. Info: here. 

* 10 May 2023: “(Rebuilding) Trust in (black-box) algorithmic decision making: the case of Medicine” at the Bioethics Institute Ghent BIG Meeting, Belgium. Info: here. 

* 23-28 May 2023: “Free Will and Determinism: A Neurophilosophical Analysis” at the Science of Consciousness Conference 2023, , Italy. Info: here. 

* 30 May 2023: Debate Panel Discussion "Technological Immortality, Faith and Mind-Uploading" at the Coliseum of Porto, Portugal. Info: here. 

* 2 June 2023 [morning] Keynote Speaker "Consciousness: Between Philosophy, Neuroscience and A.I." at the Mindscapes Conference, The Romanian Athenaeum, Romania. Info: here. 

* 2 June 2023 [afternoon]: Speaker at the Panel Discussion "Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" at the Mindscapes: Conference,  The Romanian Athenaeum, Romania. Info: here. 

* 20 June 2023: "Phenomenology and Neuroscience: a Methodological Examination" at the Phenomenology in the 21st Century, Catholic University Braga, Portugal. Info: here.

* 23 June 2023: "Philosophy & Neuroscience: Between Tango and Samba" at the PhenCog - Uni. Feral Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Info: here. 

* 28 June 2023: Keynote Speaker "Consciousness: Philosophy, Quantum Physics and Neuroscience" at the Conferencia Internacional Neurología Cuántica, Chile.  Info: here. 

* 29 June 2023: Keynote Speaker "Inteligencia Artificial y la Ética en los Professionales de la Salud" at the Conferencia en Hospital Carlos Van Buren, Valparaíso, Chile.  Info: here.

* 4 July 2023: Seminar Speaker "Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Brain-Machine Interfaces" at the Soceidad Filosofia Analise Filosófica, Argentina.  Info: here.

* 14 July 2023: "The Search for Explanation in AI Medicine" at the 4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science (LICPOS 2023) |, Portugal. Info: here. 

* 23 August 2023: "Artificial Intelligence & Medicine: Bridging the Trust Gap" at the 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ESAP 2023) | Vienna, Austria. Info: here. 

* 28 August 2023: "Philosophy and Neuroscience: An Experimental Philosophy Study" at the 30th European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference (ESPP 2023) | Praga, Czech Republic. Info: here. 

​* 4 September 2023: Research Meeting with Professor Sante Maletta at the Univesity of Bergamo | Bergamo, Italy.
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​* 25 September 2023: "Free-Will and Determinism: Between Philosophy and Neuroscience" at the International Workshop on Free-Will | Lisbon, Portugal. Info: here. 

​​* 28 September 2023: "Steering AI's Ship: The Role of Ethics in Navigating Uncertain Artificial Waters" | TEDx Talk NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal. Info: here. 

​​* 4 October 2023: "Black-Boxes, AI Medicine, and Trust: An Ethical Exploration" at the Human-centered AI Colloquim | Utrecht, Netherlands. Info: here.  

​​* 23 October 2023: Speaker at the Panel Discussion "Artificial Intelligence: Crossed Looks between Ethics, Law and Technology" at the Catholic Business School (Porto), Portugal. Info: here.  

​* 9 November 2023: "Free Will and Determinism: A Neurophilosophical Analysis" at the XII Edition Workshop of Philosophy of Biology & Cognitive Sciences, University of Malaga | Malaga, Spain. Info: here. 

​* 23 November 2023: "is There a Black-Box Issue in Ai Medicine?" at the LisbonAISeminar, University of Lisbon | Lisbon, Portugal. Info: here. 

To be updated.