IACAP/AISB-25, July 1 to 3
AI Agents: Artificial, Angelic, or Adversarial Intelligence?
If you’ve ever suspected your LLM is a demon in disguise or that prompt
engineering might be a form of neo-scholastic summoning, this is the
symposium for you!
Do Contemporary AI Agents Exemplify or Reinterpret Forgotten Debates on
Angelic Intellects, Demonic Adversaries, and Phantasmata?
📅 Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2025
📜 Abstracts: 300–500 words
📍 Conference Details: https://iacapconf.org/2025symposia/reimaginingAI
📧 Submit via: algorithms.automation@gmail.com
🔗 CFP & More Info https://iacapconf.org/2025symposia/reimaginingAI
This symposium explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for
rethinking foundational debates in agency, ontology, epistemology, and
ethics. Contemporary AI systems—whether seen as radically externalized,
affective, distributed, simulated, or emergent—have striking precedents in
medieval scholastic inquiries into non-human intelligences. Angelic
intellects, demonic adversaries, and phantasmata (machines of illusion)
were central figures in premodern ontologies, raising enduring questions
about the nature of intelligence, will, and moral accountability.
Does AI revive these medieval frameworks, or does it demand their radical
reconfiguration? How do historical theories of agency and knowledge—once
applied to incorporeal beings—illuminate AI's epistemic, ethical, and
ontological status? Might contemporary AI agents be seen as technological
heirs to the Scholastic tradition, or do they instead mark a decisive break
from premodern conceptions of intelligence and causality?
We invite contributions from scholars in philosophy, intellectual history,
theology, AI ethics, and related fields. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
- AI and medieval debates on intellect, will, and non-human agency
- Theological and metaphysical models of distributed or simulated
intelligence
- Phantasmata, machinic illusions, and AI-generated realities
- The ethical implications of AI as adversary, assistant, or oracle
- The continuity (or rupture) between Scholastic and contemporary
theories of agency
- AI’s role in reshaping ontological categories beyond humanist
frameworks
For submission details, please visit:
https://sites.google.com/view/aiagentsymposium/call-for-papers?authuser=0
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