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³ÉÈ˶¶ÒôÆÆ½â°æâ€™s Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Philosophy invites you to:

The Future of Humanity in an AI-Dominated World
A Public Philosophy Panel Discussion

³ÉÈ˶¶ÒôÆÆ½â°æâ€™s Philosophy Program invites you to a timely and thought-provoking public conversation exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping human life, knowledge, and responsibility.

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Event Details

Date: Friday, April 17, 2026
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Location: The Digitorium, Griffin Hall 201
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About the Event

As part of the Philosophy Program’s Ethics and Society Series, this panel brings together leading scholars to examine the ethical, social, and philosophical implications of living in an AI-driven world.

The discussion will consider how artificial intelligence is transforming our understanding of who we are – our agency, knowledge, work, and moral responsibility – and what this means for the future of humanity.

This event is free and open to students, faculty, and the wider community.

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Featured Speakers

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André Curtis-Trudel 

André is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center of Humanities and Technology at the University of Cincinnati. His primary research interests are in philosophy of science and philosophy artificial intelligence, focusing on the methodological and epistemological impacts of AI on science. He teaches class on AI ethics, AI and sustainability, and the philosophy of LLMs. 

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Clare Batty

Clare Batty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on the philosophy of perception, particularly questions that arise from investigating the non-visual modalities. Much of her work examines the nature of representation in olfactory experience, and she has published numerous papers in this area. As Director of the Cognitive Science Minor, she teaches courses in the philosophy of cognitive science. Her work on perception and representation connects to broader philosophical questions about mind, cognition, and artificial intelligence. 

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Guy Dove

Guy Dove is a professor of philosophy at the University of Louisville. One of his primary research interests is the role of language in cognition. He pursues this interest by attempting to make sense of recent empirical findings in cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and artificial intelligence. He is currently a Bingham faculty fellow in the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society. The theme for the fellowship this year is: Being human in the AI era. 

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Kate Johnson

Kate Johnson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics and Social Justice Center at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY. Her research interests focus on moral theory, applied ethics (with a particular focus on bioethics), and the philosophy of hope. Kate is committed to exploring the impact and implications of AI on higher education, society, and the future we are shaping for our children. 

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Michael Hicks

Michael R. Hicks is associate professor and lead departmental advisor for the philosophy department at Miami University in Oxford Ohio.  His research is in the philosophy of mind and language and the history of analytic philosophy, especially the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars.  He is interested in the role of language in mediating our recognition of other thinkers (and moral subjects more generally), which leads him to worry about the way AI technology threatens to distort our ability to acknowledge one another. 

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Peter Fosl

Peter S. Fosl is Professor of Philosophy and director of PPE at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Fosl holds one of Transylvania’s Bingham chairs in teaching excellence. He was also the David Hume Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and a John William Miller Fellow at Williams College. Author of Hume’s Scepticism (2020) he is co-author of The Philosopher’s Toolkit, The Ethics Toolkit, and The Critical Thinking Toolkit. Fosl also edited The Big Lebowski and Philosophy. His interest in AI stems from his concerns about its impact on teaching the liberal arts, in particular the humanities. 

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Contact

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Robert Brice — bricer1@nku.edu

Alador Morgan — morgann6@nku.edu

Renn Spigelmyer — spigelmyec1@nku.edu