The National Centre for Culture in Lisbon is promoting a debate on artificial intelligence this afternoon, Tuesday, 22 October, at 17 p.m., with the participation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Portuguese Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education. A statement issued by the organisers informs that the event, entitled “Culture and Artificial Intelligence”, will take place at the Factory Lisbon on the Beato Innovation District campus. It will be opened by the speeches of Maria Calado (President of the National Centre for Culture), Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins (Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) and Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović (Secretary General of Europa Nostra).
After these speeches, the programme includes a special message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, followed by contributions on specific issues such as “the uneasiness of doubt in the construction of knowledge” (Alexandre Quintanilha, researcher in biophysics); “Artificial intelligence and creativity: where are we going?” (Carlos Fiolhais, Professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra); “Digital afterlife? Fellows of artificial intelligence, mourning and mortality” (William Hasselberger, Director of the Digital Ethics Laboratory at the Catholic University of Portugal); and “Artificial intelligence is not intelligent” (Rudolfo Quintas, Visual Artist).
Cardinal Tolentino de Mendonça will then take the floor on artificial intelligence. Following his speech, there will be an opportunity for questions and dialogue between the speakers and a group of students from the Lisbon campus of the Catholic University of Portugal.