[SydPhil] Reminder: Upcoming MQ Ethics and Agency Research Centre Seminars

[Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre]

Dear all,

This is a friendly reminder that you are warmly invited to two upcoming Seminars hosted by the Macquarie University Ethics & Agency Research Centre (EAC):

Event 1:

‘The risks of AI slop and AI model collapse, and why it is essential to adequately feed the next Generative AI models and to remunerate creators through a dual right system’

Speaker:
Visiting Scholar Professor Alain Strowel (UCLouvain)

Date & Time:

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Location:
17 Wally's Walk 301 Boardroom, Macquarie University

Join us for an engaging discussion, drawing on insights from the European Union, on the growing risks facing generative AI systems, the challenges of maintaining data quality, and the importance of sustainable human creator compensation frameworks.

Please register at: Link<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/CzCrCQnMBZfoM48EXHxfRiGRA0y?domain=events.humanitix.com>

Event 2:

Speaker: Distinguished Professor Colin Allen, UCLA


Event details: Thursday 14th of August, 2:00pm, 17 Wally's Walk, Moot Court (224)

Zoom link: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_o-gCROND2u5jPJkGCNh8i1NJzd?domain=macquarie.zoom.us

Password: 221611

Title: How (not) to estimate chimpanzee or hominin working memory capacity

Abstract: Working memory is central to many cognitive tasks but despite 86 billion neurons, working memory capacity in modern humans is surprisingly small. Why is it so limited and what information is available to understand how it scales with increasing brain size in the hominin lineage? I will combine insights from computational modeling, neuroscience, comparative cognition, and the archaeological record to contest a lowball estimate of working memory capacity in early hominins and chimpanzees. I will argue that frontal control over working memory contents rather than absolute capacity is likely to be more important for explaining how early Homo erectus began to construct a cognitive niche different from earlier Australopithecenes.


Best wishes,
Ethics & Agency Research Centre (EAC)
Macquarie University

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