RESI: AI/Generative AI Resources

Events

Below is a list of upcoming events and archived events focusing on Generative AI.

The First International Workshop on Agentic Intelligence: Risks, Ethics, and Trust, November 11, 2025 | 7:00 am – 5:00 pm

Location: Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown

Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered a new phase marked by the rise of agentic systems—autonomous entities capable of planning, adapting, and acting over time toward goals. Unlike conventional AI models that operate within fixed boundaries or reactive paradigms, agentic AI embodies dynamic, proactive behavior that can reshape digital and physical environments. This shift demands a fundamental rethinking of risk and threat models, ethical frameworks, socio-technical solutions, and governance strategies.

The Workshop on Agentic Intelligence: Risks, Ethics, and Trust (AIRET) is motivated by the urgent need to address the complexities introduced by agentic AI. These systems challenge existing assumptions about controllability, oversight, and accountability. Risks such as instrumental convergence, emergent behavior, or self-preservation, as well as intended and unintended harms to individuals and society, are no longer speculative but are becoming practical concerns. Similarly, ethical questions about manipulation, responsibility, and human autonomy gain new urgency when intelligent agents act on our behalf—or against our interests—without direct supervision.

This workshop invites a cross-disciplinary audience, including AI researchers, ethicists, legal scholars, cybersecurity and privacy experts, and policy makers. Our goal is to foster a shared vocabulary and critical perspective on how agentic AI redefines the landscape of AI safety and ethics. We aim to bridge socio-technical insights with philosophical and regulatory foresight, charting a course toward systems that are not only powerful but also principled, accountable, and aligned with human and societal values.

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Sponsored by the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security and the Office of the Provost Responsible Data Science program

AI-Induced Abdication of Medical Decision-Making, November 13, 2025 | 6:15 – 8:15 pm

Location: Online

Panelists:
Emily Beer, JD (Columbia University)

Camille Castelyn, PhD (University of Pretoria Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Health Sciences)

David N. Hoffman, JD (Columbia University)

Joel Janhonen (University of Turku)

Larry Medsker, PhD (University of Vermont; George Mason University)

Michael I. Saadeh (Innovative Bioethics Forum)

This webinar will draw urgent attention to automation complacency in relation to decision support systems used in healthcare contexts, especially their impact on clinicians, patients, and the quality of care. While AI and medical decision support systems can enhance efficiency and outcomes in healthcare, the potential for automation bias risks clinical perils. These include eroded vigilance, impoverished therapeutic relationships, and potentially poorer outcomes regarding overall well-being. The panelists will highlight these ethical and legal concerns and urge heightened vigilance to effectively integrate technology in a way that spares cognitive resources without compromising the role of humans in making medical decisions.

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Sponsored by Columbia University

Agentic Health History Facilitators: Bioethical Considerations for Patient-Centered Care and Precision Medicine, November 14, 2025 | noon – 1:00 pm

Location: Online and in-person in Room A115, School of Public Health

Human Genetics and Public Health Ethics Grand Rounds

Lynette Hammond Gerido, PhD, MPH, MBA
Assistant Professor of Bioethics
Case Western Reserve University

This presentation describes the emerging role of agentic artificial intelligence in health history collection and its implications for patient-centered care in precision medicine. As AI-driven autonomous agents become capable of facilitating complex family health discussions—clarifying genetic relationships, eliciting pertinent risk information, and structuring clinically relevant data for both patients and providers—we must critically examine the ethical, legal, and social issues associated with these technologies.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Human Genetics and School of Public Health

Contact bioethics@pitt.edu for information to join online; in-person participation is encouraged.

Mass Distortion of Gender and Age via Online Media and Large Language Models, November 14, 2025 | 3:00 – 4:00 pm

Location: Room 1414, Cathedral of Learning

Douglas R. Guilbeault, PhD
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Sponsored by the Department of Communications

2nd Digital Health Summit, January 29–30, 2026

Location: Courtyard Pittsburgh University Center, 100 Lytton Avenue

Abstract: Spotlighting the role of AI in revolutionizing healthcare, the 2025 summit will discuss:

Digital Infrastructure and Inpatient Architecture – Exploring how AI-driven automation and predictive analytics are reshaping hospital operations and inpatient care.
Digital Governance and Law – Addressing the evolving legal landscape of AI, data privacy and ethical considerations in healthcare technology.
R&D Pitfalls in the Digital Landscape – Discussing common challenges in AI-driven research and development, from data biases to regulatory hurdles.
Hospital-at-Home Transformation – Examining how AI and remote monitoring are enabling acute-level care in patients' homes.

The summit aims to bring together leading proponents of digital medicine in healthcare delivery and education. It will provide a platform for developing multispecialty grant proposals focused on patient-related outcomes and discussing AI-driven innovation in the digital health space.

Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Sciences and UPMC

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The Ethical Use of Pediatric Patients’ Data in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, February 12, 2026 | 8:00 – 9:00 am

Location: Online and in-person in Rangos Auditorium at Children’s Hospital

Pediatric Ethics Grand Rounds — Donald N. Medearis, Jr., MD, Lecture

Alyssa Burgart, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and Associate Director of Pediatric Bioethics at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Stanford University

Co-sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics

Registration TBA

Archived Events

Biosecurity in the Age of AI and Genomics. Panelists examined the new types of risks enabled by combined data and biological technologies and discussed proposals for effective governance, July 11, 2025.
AI in Medicine: Legal and Ethical Issues. How should the law regulate medical AI? What does ethical use of medical AI look like? This lecture sought to further that conversation, covering topics such as privacy, informed consent, bias, liability, and governance of medical AI, March 18, 2025.
Ethics and the Law and Regulation of Medical AI. Panelists explored the ethical considerations for medical and consider current and possible legal and regulatory approaches, March 7, 2025.
The Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research: Challenges & Emerging Guidance. This conference discussed how AI is being used in research, the challenges it presents to research ethics and integrity, and current guidance on using AI in research and publication, March 5, 2025.
Privacy Lessons for Risk-Based AI Regulation. This talk argued that the risk-based approaches to AI regulation predominant today are not only largely incommensurable with robust protection for data privacy interests, but need to be fundamentally re-oriented—or entirely abandoned—to address the real risks and harms of AI systems today and tomorrow, February 21, 2025.
Cancer, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: (Almost) Everything is Under Control. November 20, 2024.
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence. Panelists provided an overview of some of the ethical issues raised by AI, with a particular focus on how educators can respond to the rise of ChatGPT and other large language models, October 29, 2024.
How Artificial Intelligence Might Save Bioethics (And it’s not how you think). Dr. Eric M. Meslin discussed how bioethics can (and should) engage in future-altering policy debates regarding AI, October 24, 2024.
The AI Touch: Harnessing AI to Enrich Patient Care. Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal explored the integration of emerging AI into healthcare to provide personalized, empathetic care, October 8, 2024.
AI & Education Summit. The MIT AI & Education 2024 Summit explored creative ways to include AI education in the classroom in the hopes of making learning more effective, July 24–26, 2024.
Towards an Ethics-Based Governance Framework for AI-Enabled Health Innovations?. Panelists discussed the pursuit of accountability, transparency, and legitimacy in AI applications, particularly in developing countries, April 23, 2024.
Visual Art and Digital Artistry. Artist Boris Eldagsen addressed the opportunities and challenges posed by generative AI for artists, journalists, and students, March 29, 2024.
Social Activism and Digital Revolutions. Panelists offered insight into how students, educators, and citizens can engage with digital technology as a tool for community-oriented engagement and advocacy, January 26, 2024.
Generative AI and Teaching: Uses in Evaluation of Learning. Panelists addressed research on automated graders, the ways that generative AI is being leveraged for assessment, and the advantages and disadvantages, January 19, 2024.
Assembling Public Perspectives on AI. Panelists discussed the Public Assembly on High Risk AI's 2023 report, December 13, 2023.
Humans Outside the Loop. Speaker Charlotte Tschider examined the key issues in existing liability models for AI products, December 7, 2023.
Archives, Data Storage, and Surveillance. Panelists explored the present state of our personal histories as data in archives and storage sites around the world, November 10, 2023.
Generative AI and Research: Policies, Practices, and Ethics in Publishing. Panelists discussed the use of generative AI in the various practices of producing published material, including writing research proposals and writing, reviewing, and publishing manuscripts, November 10, 2023.
Generative AI and Pedagogy: Values and Opportunities. Panelists explored positive uses of generative AI in teaching, fundamental literacies around generative AI for students, and issues of academic integrity, October 27, 2023.
Generative AI in/as Theater and Performance. Panelists examined theater as a space of language development, political discourse, and technological innovation, October 27, 2023.
A Preliminary Model of Moral Disengagement and Re-engagement of AI Developers. Dr. Mildred Cho considered possible facilitators and barriers to the development of ethical machine learning, October 3, 2023.
Generative AI and Digital Humanities. Panelists examined popular thought on AI and reconceptualized its role in the digital humanities, September 29, 2023.
The Urgent Need for “Nutrition Facts Labels” for AI. Dr. Sara Gerke discussed the many regulatory issues raised by AI/ML-based medical devices, August 21, 2023.
What Should ChatGPT Mean for Bioethics and Education?. June 28, 2023.
ChatGPT, Knowledge, and Misinformation: Technology and Its Many Impacts on Health, Wellness, and Society. Panelists discussed AI and other technologies that are changing the landscape of society, health, wellness, and scientific research, June 21, 2023.
Generative AI: Opportunities, Risks, and Implications for Higher Education. Faculty leaders Morgan Frank, PhD (Department of Informatics and Networked Systems), Annette Vee, PhD (Department of English), Na-Rae Han, PhD (Department of Linguistics), and Ravit Dotan, PhD (Center for Governance and Markets) lead workshops examining generative AI and its implications for higher education, May 4 – 11, 2023.
ChatGPT Wrote this Title: Exploring the Impact of AI on Our Minds and Society. Panelists discussed how generative AI affects the way we think, write and speak, and the associated impacts on society, April 19, 2023.