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In the age of AI, what does it mean to be human? 

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AI & Humanity Korea is dedicated to carrying out research on the impact of AI on humanity, as well as the nature of AI itself. 


AI & Humanity Korea works with other research labs, centers, and institutes in Asia, as well as a global network of partners, to promote research on AI and humanity. 


AI & Humanity Korea is directed by Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen, Underwood Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Underwood International College, Yonsei University. 

Events

Machine Personhood


December 2025

Yonsei University


Speaker

Boris Babic

University of Hong Kong

Conceptual foundations of AI


December 2025

Yonsei University


Speakers


Justin Sytsma

University of Wellington


Dongwoo Kim

KAIST


Chanwoo Lee

Ajou University


Hyungrae Noh

Pusan National University


Kyeongnam Park

KAIST


Chaerin Park

Sungkyunkwan University


Seong Soo Park

Sungkyunkwan University


Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Yonsei University

Past events

AI minds


September 30

Yonsei University


Speaker

Simon Goldstein

University of Hong Kong

Going Whole Hog: A Philosophical Defense of AI Cognition


September 10, 2025

Yonsei University


Speaker


Herman Cappelen

University of Hong Kong

Philosophy of AI workshop


February 11, 2025

Yonsei University


Speakers


Annalisa Coliva

UC Irvine


Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Yonsei University


Dongwoo Kim

KAIST


Hyungrae Noh

Pusan National University


Youllim Bae

Sungkyunkwan University


Injin Woo

Sungkyunkwan University

Echo chambers


July 18, 2024

Yonsei University


Speaker


Minsu Kim

Kyung Hee University

Testimony and conversational AI


July 7, 2023

Yonsei University


Speakers


Shun Iizuka

University of Tokyo


Peter J. Graham

UC Riverside


Shohei Matsumoto

University of Tokyo


Masashi Kasaki

Nagoya University

Self-driving vehicles, risk & responsibility


May 11, 2022

Yonsei University


Speaker


Junyeol Kim

Chungbuk National University

Collaboration &

the AI arms race


September 29

Yonsei University


Speaker

Simon Goldstein

University of Hong Kong

AI-based knowledge?


July 18, 2025

Yonsei University


Speakers


Tony Cheng

Waseda University


Peter Graham

UC Riverside


Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen

Yonsei University


Masashi Kasaki

Nagoya University


The Epistemology of AI: intellectual virtues, testimony, agentic AI


January 24, 2025

University of California, Irvine


(co-organized with AI & Humanity Korea)


Speakers


Duncan Pritchard 

UC Irvine


Peter J. Graham 

UC Riverside


Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Yonsei University


Discussant


Annalisa Coliva

UC Irvine


AI & epistemology workshop


July 1, 2024

Yonsei University


Speakers


Adrian K. Yee

Lingnan University


Maomei Wang

University of Hong Kong


Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Yonsei University


Myungjun Kim

Florida State University


Trustworthy AI

& Virtual Reality


February 16, 2023

Yonsei University


Speakers


Dongyong Choi

Inha University


Seong Soo Park

Sungkyunkwan University

The ethics of algorithms


April 27, 2022

Yonsei University


Speaker


Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Yonsei University

Trusting AI

+

AI errors & knoweldge


September 22

Yonsei University


Speakers

Annalisa Coliva

University of California, Irvine


Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

Yonsei University

Fake Plastic Minds


May 27, 2025

Yonsei University


Speaker


Sebastian Sunday Grève

Peking University


Socializing Mathematical Knowledge: Fallibility, Sociality, Technology


November 13, 2024

Yonsei University


Speaker


Silvia De Toffoli

Scuola Superiore Universitaria IUSS Pavia

Methods, trust, risk

& norms of inquiry


June 21-22, 2024

Yonsei University


Speakers


Julien Dutant

King's College London


Sven Rosenkranz

University of Barcelona


Matt Jope

University of Edinburgh


Sandy Goldberg

Northwestern University

Moral responsibility

& hybrid agents


May 25, 2022

Yonsei University


Speaker


Dongyong Choi

Inha University