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Last checked: June 8, 2026
Conference panel·Event: September 8, 2026
ECPR Standing Group section on Kantian Philosophy in the Age of Technology — ECPR General Conference
Panel page↗This ECPR panel in the section Kantian Philosophy in the Age of Technology focuses on how Artificial Intelligence challenges our understanding of agency and humanity. Listed papers address conversational LLMs and the first-person standpoint, duties to oneself in the age of AI, mental integrity, moral cultivation, and self-control enhancement technologies.
Symposium·Event: June 5, 2026
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study / School of International Liberal Studies — Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
Event page↗Waseda hosted a symposium with Yuk Hui and several philosophers around Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy After AI. The event links non-human intelligence, machine morality, the possibility of knowledge, and Kant's project of perpetual peace in the context of current AI technologies.
Podcast episode·June 4, 2026
Sune Selsbæk-Reitz, Lasse Rindom — Apple Podcasts — Apple Podcasts
Listen↗A conversation about source criticism, human agency, AI deployment, and deontological design. The episode is not conventionally academic, but it is strongly relevant to Kantian AI Ethics because Selsbæk-Reitz explicitly frames responsible AI around dignity and Kantian moral philosophy.
Preprint·April 21, 2026
Taylor Olson — arXiv
Preprint↗Olson develops a quantified modal logic for Kant's Formula of Universal Law. The framework models maxims, agency, causality, universalization, and duty derivation in a form directly relevant to artificial moral agents and machine ethics.
Book·January 22, 2026
Yuk Hui — Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher↗Hui treats contemporary Artificial Intelligence as a renewed test case for critical philosophy. The book frames AI and robotics through Kantian questions about reason, mediation, ethics, and political modernity rather than treating AI as a merely technical problem.