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Workshop: Philosophy of XAI - State of the Field

This workshop aims to bring together philosophers working on explainability/interpretability/transparency in machine learning, to share recent work and discuss future directions for the field.

Info about event

Time

Wednesday 18 June 2025, at 09:30 - Thursday 19 June 2025, at 16:00

Location

1532-122 (Aud G2): Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 118, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Lunch, coffee/tea, cake, and fruit will be served at the workshop for those who have signed up by now.

Below you find the full program:

Day 1: June 18

9.30: Registration

10.00: Session 1
Thomas Grote - "Shaking up the dogma: Solving trade-offs without (moral) values in machine learning"

11.00: Break

11.15: Session 2
Will Fleisher – “XAI, Disagreement, and Idealized Models”

12.15: Lunch

13.30: Session 3
Joshua James Hatherley - “Federated Learning, Ethics, and the Double Black Box Problem in Medical AI”

14.30: Break

14.45: Session 4
Jens Ulrik Hansen - “Achieving legitimization and trust in AI projects: Data issues and model explainability”

15.45: Break

16.00: Session 5
Juan Manuel Duran + Emma-Jane Spencer - "The Limits of Reliability in Healthcare AI: What It Means and What We Can Do"

17.00: End


Day 2: June 19
 
9.00: Session 6
Eva Schmidt - "The Reasons of AI"

10.00: Break

10.15: Session 7
Kate Vredenburgh – “The distributive consequences of a right to explanation, XAI, and credit”

11.15: Break

11.30: Session 8
Lauritz Munch - “A fourth account of the right to explanation”

12.30: Lunch

13.30: Session 9
Lena Kastner

14.30: Break

14.45: Session 10
Carlos Zednik - "Explanation, Interpretation, and Deep Alignment"

15.45: Closing

16.00: End