Philosopher Dr. Anthony Fisher of Gonzaga University will present a talk titled "Fictionalism About Agentic AI", followed by a question and answer session. This event is open to the public. 
Abstract:
This paper motivates, sketches, and argues for a new meta-ethical theory in AI Ethics, namely, fictionalism about AI systems, especially agentic AI. On this view, AI agents are not moral agents and not truly held accountable for their decisions or outputs, but they are according to the fiction. It is also argued that the fiction is useful and that developers and deployers of AI systems should be explicit in setting up the context so that it is clear to users that an AI agent is a fictional individual. Fictionalism has many attractive features; importantly, it allows for liberal licence to build responsible AI frameworks where some notions of responsibility are applied to AI systems directly (within the fiction), which can fill responsibility gaps.