Waarin verschillen we van andere dieren, en wat delen we met hen? Begrijpen we werkelijk wie we zijn? Rede, moraal, abstract denken, taal en religie golden lang als uniek menselijk, maar onderzoek heeft laten zien dat andere dieren deze vermogens ook kennen. Is misschien het onderscheid tussen mens en dier niet zozeer een specifieke eigenschap, maar de mate waarin we die eigenschappen ontwikkelen? In dit programma duiken we met experts uit de filosofie, biologie, muziekcognitie en taalkunde in deze brandende vragen, en komen tot nieuwe antwoorden: Rens Bod, Bernice Bovenkerk, Carel ten Cate, Henkjan Honing en Jelle Zuidema.

The Research Priority Area Human(e) AI at the University of Amsterdam synthesises ongoing work and stimulates new research at the UvA on the societal consequences of the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) in a wide variety of societal areas. Together with our invited speakers, we will explore unanswered questions, share experiences, and identify the needs and priorities of our research community.

The RPA Human(e) AI invites you to our upcoming AI and Research Event on Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Morning – Legal Hackathon: From Risks to Solutions
Legal counsels, ethical committee members, and AI researchers will discuss legal and ethical challenges in AI-related research.

Afternoon – Workshop: AI in Research Practices
Together with our invited speakers, we will explore unanswered questions, share experiences, and identify the needs and priorities of our research community.

We will discuss a paper by Kohei Kishida.

The primary goal of this paper is to recast the semantics of modal logic, and dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) in particular, in category-theoretic terms. We first review the category of relations and categories of Kripke frames, with particular emphasis on the duality between relations and adjoint homomorphisms. Using these categories, we then reformulate the semantics of DEL in a more categorical and algebraic form.