David Hildebrand

This March and April, Professor David Hildebrand is teaching seminars on the philosophy of art and aesthetics at Ca' Foscari university in Venice. At the University of Bologna on April 12th he will present a paper entitled "Preserving meaning in an age of Algorithms and A.I. — Borgman and Dewey."...

On April 12, 2024 Professor David Hildebrand gave an invited talk to a multidisciplinary audience at the University of Bologna entitled, "Preserving meaning in an age of Algorithms and A.I. — Borgmann and Dewey." The talk discussed the potential for new technologies -- particularly algorithmic-based tools such as ChatGPT and...

What are the epistemic and ethical implications of generative A.I. and ChatGPT technologies? This talk will examine our present technological situation and will raise questions about the impact upon agency, autonomy, empathy, and our ability for free inquiry. David Hildebrand, Philosophy Professor, presented on the ethics of data and A.I...

In June, Professor of philosophy David Hildebrand presented an invited, sponsored keynote entitled “Democratic Habits and the Challenges of Information Technologies” at the conference “Democratic Education Revisited” at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His paper argued that new, algorithmic, and “big data” technologies are tracking and changing the nature...