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The project studies the role that current and emerging technologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play in basic research, focusing on agency, creativity, and authorship. The aim is to help provide the conceptual machinery with which to describe, evaluate, and regulate the current transformative technological development. While that development impacts many sectors including economy, mobility, and the arts, the chosen focus on science allows to study the concepts of agency, creativity, and authorship in a relatively well-structured yet rich environment. How will AI techniques affect our laboratories, the nature and meaning of scientific experiment, and basic research in general? More generally: Can machines be agents, can they be creative, can they produce something genuinely new? To answer these pressing questions, the work connects methods and techniques from philosophy, physics, and AI in an integrated interdisciplinary approach and makes use of connections to three groups that currently transform their scientific workflow with a focus on AI methods (Collective behaviour, Konstanz; Climate Modeling Alliance, CalTech; Quantum optics, Innsbruck and Vienna).

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller

  Universität Konstanz
  Fachbereich Philosophie
  Konstanz
  

• Prof. Dr. Hans Briegel

  Universität Innsbruck
  Institut für Theoretische Physik
  Innsbruck
  Österreich
  

• Honeybee communication during collective defence is shaped by predation

• How a minimal learning agent can infer the existence of unobserved variables in a complex environment

• Quantum machine learning beyond kernel methods

• Introducing a four-fold way to conceptualize artificial agency

• Taming Pereboom's wild coincidences