HIDA Lecture: AI & Credit-Blame Asymmetries
Speaker: Sven Nyholm, LMU Munich
Date: 21.05.2025, 02:00 pm
Title: AI, Responsibility Gaps, and Asymmetries between Credit and Blame
Abstract:
In this lecture, Sven Nyholm will discuss "responsibility gaps" related to artificial intelligence (AI) and some surprising asymmetries regarding praise and blame for good and bad outcomes. Using contemporary examples such as text produced by large language models, accidents caused by self-driving cars, and AI-supported medical diagnoses and treatments, Nyholm will demonstrate how praise for good outcomes produced by AI is typically harder to deserve than blame for bad outcomes.
Sven Nyholm
Sven Nyholm is Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty for Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies at LMU Munich. He is also Principal Investigator for AI Ethics at the Munich Center for Machine Learning and an Associate Editor of the academic journal Science and Engineering Ethics. Nyholm's books include Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism from 2020 and This is Technology Ethics: An Introduction from 2023.
