Lecturers

Gregor Betz (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

Gregor Betz is professor of philosophy of science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Since the release of GPT-2 in 2019, he has been pursuing computational philosophy projects at the intersection of NLP and AI involving so-called large language models. (See highlights below.)

Before turning to GenAI, Gregor has been studying the limits of scientific prediction, esp. in economics and climate science, the role of values in science, requirements of democratic scientific policy advice, and the ethics of climate engineering. He has developed a formal theory and computational models of argumentative debate, and applied these methods to clarify key concepts in epistemology, to interpret classical texts, to assess consensus- and truth-conduciveness of debate, as well as to to improve critical thinking teaching.

Moreover, in 2023, Gregor has founded Logikon AI, a startup that applies critical thinking methods to improve generative AI.

Nora Heinzelmann (Universität Heidelberg)

Nora Heinzelmann ist Professorin für Philosophie an den Fakultäten für Philosophie und Ingenieurwissenschaften (seit Oktober 2024). Davor war sie Gastwissenschaftlerin (2024) am Department für Philosophie der New York University und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Postdoc) in Philosophie an den Universitäten Erlangen-Nürnberg und München (LMU). Sie spezialisierte sich in Ethik und Handlungstheorie und wurde mit einer Arbeit über Willensschwäche promoviert.

Prof. Heinzelmanns langjährige interdisziplinäre Erfahrung umfasst unter anderem Forschungsprojekte zur Ethik der Gentechnologien, Digital- und Impfethik in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrum und zur Neurophilosophie und Philosophie der Kognitionswissenschaft mit dem Zentrum für Neuroökonomie der Universität Zürich.

Kyle Richardson (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

Kyle Richardson is a senior research scientist at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, Washington where he does work on natural language processing and machine learning on the Aristo Project. Prior to this, he was a researcher at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, where he received his PhD in October 2018. Before this, he received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in upstate New York (USA).