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How is Artificial Intelligence reshaping democracy, work, education, medicine and the arts? From 25 to 28 August 2026, an international online course will bring together leading voices from economics, science, computer science and the arts to explore the ethical questions shaping our AI-driven future.

Four evenings, four perspectives

Led by philosopher, AI ethicist and former A.S.CENT. visiting fellow Steven S. Gouveia, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence is a four-session online course designed to examine the social, political, scientific and cultural implications of rapidly developing AI technologies. 

Each session combines an accessible lecture with a live debate featuring an internationally recognised guest:

• Daron Acemoglu, MIT economist and 2024 Nobel Laureate — Democracy, Work and Artificial Intelligence
• Brian Greene, Columbia University physicist and co-founder of the World Science Festival — Knowledge, Science, Education and Artificial Intelligence
• Roman V. Yampolskiy, University of Louisville computer scientist and AI-safety researcher — Medicine, Bias and Existential Risk of Artificial Intelligence
• Fernando Ribeiro, vocalist of Moonspell, writer and poet — Arts, Music and Artificial Intelligence

Why does AI ethics matter?

Artificial Intelligence is already transforming how we work, learn, create and make decisions. The course will explore some of the questions at the heart of this transformation: Can AI strengthen democracy or concentrate power? Will automation benefit workers or increase inequality? How should education respond to generative AI? Can medical AI improve human lives without reproducing bias? And what will AI mean for creativity, authorship and artistic expression?

The course goes beyond the technology itself to consider the human and political choices that will shape how AI is developed and whose interests it will serve.

 

Join the discussion

The course is open to a general audience, including students and members of the academic community. No previous technical or philosophical training is required. 

25–28 August 2026 | 21:00–23:00 Porto | 16:00–18:00 New York | 13:00–15:00 Los Angeles

Live online via Zoom

 

Places are limited.

View the full programme and register: link

Join four evenings of accessible, internationally informed debate on one of the defining technological and ethical challenges of our time.