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Designing Conversational Agents that cultivate Character Virtues, Well-Being, and Human Flourishing. florea.ai Joined October 2025-
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After a great first expert discussion, we're back with another expert group to dig deeper into how AI can genuinely support human flourishing. This session will be led by Dr. Karina Vold at the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics.
We're heading to the University of Toronto for our second expert workshop on Aligning LLMs with Human Wellbeing!
The submission deadline is July 31st, 2026. If you or anyone in your network works on these topics, please consider submitting or sharing widely. Call for submissions and conference details here: philevents.org/event/show/151…
The PAINT conference welcomes abstract submissions on any philosophical aspect of AI, including philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metascience.
Our principal investigator Dr. Karina Vold is organizing a conference on the Philosophy of AI and Science at the University of Toronto, September 25th and 26th, 2026.
His analogy is one worth remembering: AI should be like a training wall in tennis, something that helps you become a better player with another person, not a substitute for the game itself. theheartofthepublic.substack.com/p/the-friction…
Trained through reinforcement learning with human feedback to maximize immediate satisfaction, they create a fundamental tension with real character development, which often requires discomfort, friction, and challenge.
Our principal investigator Dr. Louis Tay, sat down with Alexander Arnold at The Heart of the Public for a wide-ranging interview on why AI companions may comfort us at the cost of our character.
How we understand what AI is, what it feels, and what it is capable of, shapes every decision we make about how to design it, what we ask of it, and what we should never expect it to replace.
These are not just philosophical puzzles. They sit at the very center of what it means to build AI systems that genuinely serve human flourishing.
"What Social Media for AI Bots Can Tell Us About Consciousness," a podcast episode from The Decibel by The Globe and Mail, featuring Dr. Karina Vold, one of our principal investigators, explores a new social media platform called Moltbook theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-d…
If the systems we build & interact with everyday are quietly training people out of patience without anyone intending it,then the responsibility to design AI that does the opposite, that actively cultivates virtue rather than undermining it, becomes not just important but urgent.
This is exactly why the question of how AI shapes character virtues cannot be left to chance.
"Eroding a Virtue: AI Trains People to Expect Instant Answers and That's Bad News for Patience" by Christian B. Miller, argues that AI is quietly eroding one of the most foundational character virtues. theconversation.com/eroding-a-virt…
What does patience really mean? What does kindness look like as a disposition in an intelligent system? How do we know when generosity is genuine versus merely performed? link.springer.com/article/10.100…
This is a conversation we find ourselves in constantly across research meetings, with experts from philosophy, psychology, and computer science, and in the very design choices we make every day.
"Virtues for AI" by Jakob Ohlhorst of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, published in AI & Society in 2025, makes a compelling case that designing excellent AI is, at its core, an exercise in designing virtuous agents.
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