Research Program Document
The research program document of the Centre from 2022 is available below (link to PDF here).
Selected publications, talks at conferences, etc. (in English and Slovene)
- Centa Strahovnik. M. & V. Strahovnik. 2025. Talking and thinking with AI: how AI chatbots restructure epistemic identity and virtue. Poligrafi 30, n. 119/120, pp. 75-95, 333, 345. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35469/poligrafi.2025.510
- Machidon, O.-M. 2025. Generative AI and childhood education: lessons from the smartphone generation. AI & society: the journal of human and machine intelligence. vol. 40, iss. 6, pp. 4295-4297. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02196-y
- Miklavčič, J. 2025 The new escape: reality, virtuality, and religious experience. Poligrafi, 30, n. 119/120, pp. 175-194, DOI: https://doi.org/10.35469/poligrafi.2025.512
- Strahovnik, V. & J. Miklavčič (eds). 2025. Beyond algorithms: Disentangling the philosophical and ethical complexities of ai and its implementation. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology. E-book available here.
- Machidon, O.-M. 2025. Beyond algorethics: addressing the ethical and anthropological challenges of AI recommender systems. Journal of media ethics. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23736992.2025.2584435
- Goddiksen, M. P., Centa Strahovnik. M., V. Strahovnik et al. 2024. The dark side of text-matching software: worries and counterproductive behaviour among European upper secondary school and bachelor students. International journal for educational integrity. 2024, vol. 20, no. 15, pp. 1-18, DOI: https://doi.org.10.1007/s40979-024-00162-7
- Strahovnik, V. 2024. Algoritemsko nasilje (Algorithmic violence). Bogoslovni vestnik 84(4), DOI: https://doi.org/10.34291/BV2024/04/Strahovnik
- Miklavčič, J. 2024. The identity game: human-like AI and human identity. Talk at the College of Information Science, The University of Arizona, Oct. 25, 2024.
- Strahovnik, V. & M. Centa Strahovnik. 2024. “Transhumanism, human moral enhancement, and virtues.” Religions. 2024, 15(11), https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/11/1345, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15111345
- Centa, M., Miklavčič, J. & V. Strahovnik. 2022. “Ethical issues related to the use of AI-based algorithms in pandemics and other public health emergencies.” In: Ethics of resilience: vulnerability and survival in times of pandemics and global uncertainty. Berlin: LIT, pp. 69-77. (draft version of the paper available here; video recording of the conference talk available here)
- Miklavčič, J. 2021. “Zaupanje in uspešnost umetne inteligence v medicini” (Trust and success of artificial intelligence in medicine). Bogoslovni vestnik 81(4) ,pp. 935-946.
- Miklavčič, J. 2022. “How AI transparency is explained?”; and Strahovnik, V. 2022. “Ethics, transparency, and human judgement.” In: Ethical challenges of artificial intelligence and new technologies, Ljubljana, Oct. 25th 2022.
- Miklavčič, J. 2021 “.Hope, trust and success of AI systems in medicine: talk at the 57th Societas Ethica, Annual Conference, Time of crisis – time of hope”, August 19-21, 2021. (video recording available here)
- Strahovnik, V. 2022. “Ethical dilemmas in the digital society” – round table talk, 10th conference “It’s about people 2022: Embracing digital transformation for a sustainable and ethical future”.
- Globokar, R. 2022. The rise of loneliness in the intertwine of digital media = Porast osamljenosti v prepletu digitalnih medijev. Talk at a conference Resonance and Alienation: Crisis of Relationships in the Modern World/Resonanca in odtujenost: kriza odnosov v sodobnem svetu, Celje, November 3-5, 2022.
- Globokar, R. 2021. Ethics of vulnerability in the age of human biotechnological enhancement. In: PETKOVŠEK, Robert (ur.), ŽALEC, Bojan (ur.). Transhumanism as a challenge for ethics and religion. Wien; Zürich: Lit, cop. 2021. pp. 27-35, 213. Theology East-West, vol. 27. ISBN 978-3-643-91297-8, ISBN 978-3-643-96297-3.
- Petkovšek, R. 2021 Kaj je etika in zakaj ravnati etično? (What is ethics and why should we act ethically?). Bogoslovni vestnik 2021, 81, 4, pp. 991-998.
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