The Future of AI: Social and Cultural Aspects online lecture series brings international experts to discuss the philosophy of AI, AI and post-digital aesthetics, cultural impacts of AI, AI (in) art, non-human agency, AI-driven social transformations, and, more generally, our coexistence with AI and digital technologies in all aspects of daily life. The series is organized by the Digital Society Lab [DigLab] of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.
The lecture series is divided in three parts. Part 2 will take place from March to May 2023.
Part 2
8 March, 18:00 (CET)
Joanna Zylinska (King’s College London), “Nonhuman Creativity: Artificial Imagination: Human Anticipation”
16 March, 17:00 (CET)
Kevin LaGrandeur (New York Institute of Technology), “The Implications of Digital Brain” Enhancement
22 May, 17:00 (CET)
Bruno Gransche (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), TBA
9 June, 17:00 (CET)
Andreas Kaminski (The Technical University of Darmstadt), “The Obsolescence of Our Concepts: Human-machine Interaction in the Context of AI”
Part 3 (September – November 2023): TBA
Part 1 (links to lectures):
Helga Nowotny (ETH Zurih), “In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms”
Armin Grunwald (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), “Artificial Intelligence (AI) meets Philosophical Anthropology”
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Sanja Bojanić (Academy of Applied Arts and Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka), “New materiality and old syntax under the skin of Ed Atkins: Aesthetics and grammar of contemporary artistic languages”