ESO on-line event - European Southern Observatory

With this on-line workshop we invite experts with a diverse set of professional skills to help the astronomical community to gather a deeper understating of what GPT-like language models mean and discuss on the impact of the use of AI on astronomy. We aim to host talks from software developers with the scope of having an in-depth look into the present and future status of the technology. Sociologists, economists, and likely neuroscientists will help us to discuss the potential impact of the use of AI and GPT language models on the cognitive skills of researchers at any career stage with focus on the potential future transformations on the way astronomy and science in general is done. We will give every day ample space for discussions. In order to make the involvement of on-line participants more effective, the SOC will have the mandate to trigger on-line pools, chair online roundtables on specific topics of interest, proposed and voted by the participants before the start of the conference. Finally, we aim at publishing the outcome of different discussions on a White Paper that might serve as a milestone for future reflections on the impact of GPT-like technologies on astronomy.