Academic Activities

Towards a Thomistic Virtue Ethics for Artificial Intelligence 

*CCL-Recognized 

*Conducted in English

Date: 13 October, 2026 (Tuesday)

Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm

Venue: WYS203 (Rm 203, 2/F, Dr. Wu Yee Sun Building, Baptist University Road Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Moderator: Rev. Prof. James Dominic Rooney 
(Assistant Professor, Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Speaker: Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, OP
(Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; Research Centre for the Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, The Philippines)

Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, OP currently serves as Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Sacred Theology at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in the Philippines, and Director of ThomisticEvolution.org. He is also a research fellow at the Research Centre for the Natural and Applied Sciences, speicalises in pure and applied microbiology. 

Click HERE for more information about Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, OP.

Abstract:

Fr. Austriaco will lay out guidelines and norms regarding use and development of AI systems, from the perspective of the ethical framework developed by Thomas Aquinas, which takes the goal of human life and the standard for moral judgements to arise from the demands for living a life of virtue.

For any inquiries, please contact us via cscs@hkbu.edu.hk.