專題演講｜Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Buddhist Ethics

本所誠摯邀請瑞士伯恩大學（University of Bern）宗教科學研究所教授 Jens Schlieter 蒞校演講，與大家一同探討人工智慧、機器人科技與佛教倫理之間的當代議題。

演講資訊

講題： Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Buddhist Ethics
講者： Jens Schlieter （Professor at University of Bern, Institute for the Science of Religion）

時間： 2026年6月9日（二）15:00–17:00
地點： 本校文學院 2009 教室

講者資訊：
Jens Schlieter Profile

演講簡介

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and robot technology have raised questions about what kind of relationship should be established between humans and AI, as well as humans and robots. The Western discussion focuses much on averting dangers regarding privacy issues and security concerns of AI use. On the other hand, philosophers and technological visionaries try to imagine the implications of a “superintelligence” (AGI) that may emerge. In Asian countries with Buddhist cultural influence, AI and robots are often discussed with a more neutral, or even positive attitude – attributed also to a more “animist” relationship towards technological artifacts. The presentation will discuss latest developments in AI and Robotics—social robots and autonomous cars in particular—as mirrored in Buddhist ethical discourse. “PARO,” for example, a Japanese therapeutic AI robot, has been marketed with the slogan of a “compassionate companionship to your own care setting,” presupposing that the robot’s behavior possesses a compassionate dimension. The presentation will discuss the two main approaches to AI robot ethics: The properties approach, which focuses on the internal characteristics that machines might possess, such as consciousness or the capacity to feel pain (with the consequence that robots and AI do not possess such characteristics, and are thus merely programs and things), while the relational approach emphasizes the importance of the emerging relationship between machines and humans. In this perspective, AI and robots will be evaluated by their social interaction with their whole, human and non-human, environment.

誠摯歡迎全校師生踴躍參與，共同思考人工智慧時代下科技、倫理與宗教哲學之間的重要課題。