Riječki znanstveni mostovi ove su godine posvećeni temi „Dijalog Istoka i Zapada o suvremenim izazovima umjetne inteligencije“. Međunarodni znanstveni simpozij koji već 11. godinu u Rijeci okuplja znanstvenike prirodnih i humanističkih disciplina oko izabrane, uvijek aktualne teme, ove će godine 5. i 6. studenog u Nadbiskupskom ordinarijatu i Medicinskom fakultetu ponuditi 18 predavanja i okrugli stol s predavačima iz cijelog svijeta.
Simpozij započinje 5. studenog u 16.00 sati u Nadbiskupskom domu, a bit će nastavljen sljedećeg dana u 10.00 sati na Medicinskom fakultetu. Predavači iz Kine, Koreje, Njemačke, Španjolske, Poljske i Hrvatske svjedočit će o dijalogu Istoka i Zapada i o temi umjetne inteligencije govoriti iz aspekta filozofije, teologije, psihologije i medicine.
Cilj ovogodišnjih Riječkih znanstvenih mostova jest postati mostom koji premošćuje 131 meridijan i devet vremenskih zona, povezujući istočne i zapadne znanstvenike u raspravi o izazovima umjetne inteligencije. Riječki će znanstveni mostovi tako otvoriti prostor za razmjenu ideja i strahova, težnji i dvojbi među stručnjacima čija su promišljanja ukorijenjena u različitim tradicijama i različitim odnosima prema pojavama koje stvara čovječanstvo koje neprestano teži naprijed, premda ne zna kamo ga taj put vodi, a još manje može moralno opravdati smjer kojim ide.
U organizaciji sudjeluju Medicinski fakultet i Fakultet zdravstvenih studija u Rijeci te Teološki fakultet u Zagrebu i Torunu.
Program
5.11.2026.
Archdiocese of Rijeka; Slaviše Vajnera Čiče 2, Rijeka
16.00 – Opening of the first day of the conference and welcome speeches
16.20 – Paweł Orzeł (Poland)
From Therapy to Ontological Transformation: Personalist Ethics in the Face of the Challenges
Posed by Artificial Intelligence and Neurotechnology in Healthcare1
16.45 – Discussion
17.00 – Break
First block of lectures (inperson/online)
17.10 – Gyubeom Jo (Republic of Korea)
The Narrowed Scope of AI Ethics
17.15 – Przemysław Witkowski (Poland)
Sins of the Tongue in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
17.20 – Xian Zhang (Germany)
From Bild to Artificial Intelligence: Language, Representation, and AI
17.25 – Mario Dugonjić / Denis Gerić / Sandra Bošković (Croatia)
Flora AI: Developing and Evaluating a Curriculum-aligned Chatbot for Undergraduate Nursing
Students
17.30 – Round table: Gyubeom Jo, Przemysław Witkowski, Xian Zhang, Mario Dugonjić, Renjie Li
(China)
Moderator: Saša Horvat (Croatia)
18.20 – Closing of the first day
6.11.2026.
Council Room (P15), 3rd Floor – Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Braće Branchetta 20, Rijeka
10.15 – Opening of the second day of the conference and welcome speeches
First block of lectures (inperson/online)
10.30 – Huanghao Feng (China)
AI-Driven Robotic Intervention for Autism: An East–West Dialogue on Therapy, Ethics, and AIEra Talent Cultivation
10.35 – Tanja Horvat / Martina Gregorina Tomac / Gordana Šimunković / Kristijan Lenac /
Saša Horvat (Croatia)
Project SARA: Socially Assistive Robots and Autistic Children – Ethical Considerations
10.40 – Blanca Deusdad / Marija Djurdjevic / Fernando Vidal (Spain)
Personhood in Dementia Care: Findings from a Study on an AI-Enabled Socially Assistive
Robotic Intervention
10.45 – Sanda Smoljo-Dobrovoljski (Croatia)
From Simulated Empathy to Relational Substitution: Clinical and Cognitive Challenges of the
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Psychotherapy
10.50 – Discussion
11.30 – Short break
Second block of lectures (inperson/online)
11.40 – Qingjie Wang / Renjie Li (China)
AI, Technē, and the Ungrounded Grounding
11.45 – Walter Schweidler (Germany)
Functioning Creativity. Some Aspects of the Philosophical Background of Artificial Intelligence
11.50 – Jiwon Shim (Republic of Korea)
Communicative AI and a Friendship Yet Unnamed
11.55 – Tonči Matulić / Anamarija Jukić-Ivandić (Croatia)
Artificial Intelligence in the Mirror of Theology: A Critical Reflection on the Anthropological Pretensions of the Algorithm
12.00 – Discussion
12.40 – Break
Third block of lectures (inperson/online)
13.10 – Maciej Wróbel (Poland)
The Emissary in the Classroom: AI and the Future of Medical Education – Rethinking
Knowledge, Competence, Judgment, and Responsibility
13.15 – Amir Muzur (Croatia) / ChatGPT – GPT-5.6 Luna (USA)
AI and I: Chatting on the Edge of Consciousness
13.20 – Nenad Malović (Croatia)
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Intelligence: Rethinking What It Means to Be Human
13.25 – Sara Lumbreras (Spain)
Interiority, Imago Dei, and the Human Person in East-West Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence
13.30 – Karlo Šimek (Croatia)
Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health: Opportunities, Benefits and Risks
13.35 – Final discussion of the second day
14.15 – Closing of the conference