Webinar: Cheating machines or mirrors of academia? The ethical implications of large language models in research
The National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) invites you to a public webinar about the ethical implications of LLMs in academia on May 8th 2025.
Time and place
Thursday May 8th 2025 from 15:00 - 16:00 on Zoom.
Join Zoom meeting here.
Meeting ID: 860 1232 5881
Passcode: 294248
About the webinar
Marko Lukic will in his talk explore whether LLMs represent a dangerous shortcut undermining academic integrity or if it just reveals the problems that we have had in academia for decades? The talk will also cover the sustainability issues that arise from development of LLMs. Comment by Professor Marija Slavkovik.
Marko Lukic is a university lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT - the Arctic University of Norway. He is also the leader of UiT's AI team. The primary purpose of the AI team is to coordinate AI-related activities and initiatives within the university, ensuring that they align with the institution's goals and objectives.
Marija Slavkovik is a Professor in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bergen. She has been doing research in machine ethics since 2012. Machine ethics studies how moral reasoning can or should be automated. Marija is a vice-chair of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, in the editorial board of AI Magazine, and AI and Society track editor of JAIR. She is the current chair of the Department of information science and media studies that since 2021 has been offering, in collaboration with the Department of informatics, the first bachelor program in AI in Norway.
If you have any questions, please contact NENT Director Thomas Østerhaug.