2nd Dortmund Conference on Philosophy and Society with Kate Vredenburgh (LSE), October 1–2, 2025

The Department of Philosophy and Political Science at TU Dortmund University and the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are delighted to invite you to the public keynote lecture by Kate Vredenburgh on “Gender Egalitarian Justice, AI, and the Future of Work.”

Date: October 1, 2025, 5 p.m.
Location: International Meeting Center, TU Dortmund (online attendance is not possible)

Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics) works in the philosophy of social science, political philosophy, and the philosophy of technology, and was recently awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for a project on the future of work.

The keynote lecture takes place as part of the 2nd installment of the Dortmund Conference on Philosophy and Society: “Themes from Kate Vredenburgh: XAI, Fairness, the Future of Work.” The first day of the conference is reserved for five presentations from speakers selected via a call for papers and Kate Vredenburgh’s keynote lecture. On the second day, we hold a student workshop on Vredenburgh’s work.

To register, please send an e-mail to Sara Mann (subject: Registration). Please indicate whether you would like to attend the keynote lecture and/or the workshop.

Schedule (October 1)

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Mahesh Venkataraman: Governing the Opaque: A STAMP-Inspired Framework for Controlling AI-Risk in the Workplace

10:10 Break

10:25 Frieder Bögner: The Attention Economy, Exploitation and Recognition-based Harms

11:25 Break

11:40 Luise Müller (co-authored by Charlotte Unruh): Workplace Hierarchy and Artificial Managers

12:40 Lunch Break

14:00 Cecilia Vergani: TBA

15:00 Break

15:15 Anna Boos: Algorithmic (in)justice

16:15 Break

17:00 Keynote
Kate Vredenburgh: Gender egalitarian justice, AI, and the future of work

18:30 Transfer to restaurant

19:15 Dinner

Themes

The conference will engage with themes from Kate Vredenburgh’s work, in particular philosophical perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI) and on the future of work. Concerning AI, Vredenburgh investigates the moral implications of the use of opaque AI systems in the institutions of our society, arguing for a right to explanation. She has developed an ethically informed picture of algorithmic bias, and proposed an account of how we should respond to such bias from the perspective of justice and fairness. She is also an advocate of a right to explanation in the context of AI, based on explanation’s relevance in protecting the possibility of informed self-advocacy. Regarding the future of work, Vredenburgh’s research focuses on the impact of AI on the workplace. She draws on egalitarian theories of justice and argues that AI should be deployed so as to enable more equality at work, and she maintains that opaque AI contributes to working conditions which undermine workers’ autonomy while alienating them from their work.

Details

https://philevents.org/event/show/136125

Committee

Florian Boge
Sara Mann
Chris Neuhäuser
Eva Schmidt