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SUMMARY:International Workshop: “AI & Political Conflict”
DESCRIPTION:The Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures invites to a two-day hybrid event\, bringing together prominent scholars to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms and their underlying technological\, normative\, and economic principles\, on political discourse\, deep disagreement\, and conflict. \nWe are happy to invite to our second international workshop “AI & Political Conflict”\, a two-day\, hybrid event scheduled for 30th May (Thursday) and 31st May (Friday) 2024\, from 9:00 to 17:00 (CET)\, and taking place at MediaFutures Research Centre as well as the Philosophy Department at UiB. \nOur goal is to bring together prominent scholars from different disciplines to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms\, and their underlying technological\, normative\, and economic principles\, on political discourse\, deep disagreement\, and conflict. \nThe event will draw on the Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures—an international research network among the ‘Culture\, Society & Politics’ and the ‘Practical Philosophy’ research groups at UiB’s Philosophy Department\, SFI MediaFutures Research Centre Bergen\, the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston\, and the MIT Program Human Rights and Technology. \nConfirmed speakers for the event include \n\nKeynote by Natali Helberger (Amsterdam)\nGloria Origgi (CNRS Paris)\nAnna Maria Lorusso (Bologna)\nJoão Vieira Magalhães (Groningen)\nAnat Biletzki (Quinnipiac)\nLeif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde).\nCarl Öhman (Uppsala)\nEugenia Stamboliev (Vienna)\nMark Thomas Young (UiB)\nAlec Stubbs (UMass Boston)\nMaria Brincker (UMass Boston)\nFilipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)\nJacob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard)\n\nTo join digitally\, please open the following zoom link. \n  \n			\n				Download the abstracts\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				First Workshop Day\, Thu.\, May 30th / Media City\, 3rd Floor / SUJO Undervisningsrom\n				09.00 am.: Welcome Notes \nSection I: Keynote \n09.15 am.: Natali Helberger (Amsterdam\, online): “ChatGPT: What is the Impact of LLMs on our Democracy?” \n09.45 am.: Q&A \nSection II: Algorithmic Injustice \n10.15 am.: Jacob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard): “Algorithmic Agency!?” \n10:45 am.: Carl Öhman (Uppsala\, online): “Gods of Data: Language Models as the personified Authority of the Past” \n11.15 am.: Q&A \n12.00 am.: Lunch break \nSection II: Algorithmic Recognition \n13.15 pm.: Leif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde): “Recognition Struggles in the (In)visibilization Society” \n13.45 pm.: João Vieira Magalhães (Groningen\, online): “The End of Recognition Theory?” \n14.15 pm.: Q&A \n15.00 pm.: Coffee break \nSection III: Political Technologies \n15.15 pm.: Mark Thomas Young (UiB) “What’s Missing from AI Ethics: Economics\, Politics and Power” \n15.45 pm.: Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna\, online): “Trustworthy AI as a Politicized Conflict” \n16:15 pm.: Q&A \n17.00 pm.: End \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Second Workshop Day\, Fri.\, May 31st / Media City\, 3rd Floor / SUJO Undervisningsrom\n				09.45 am.: Welcome Note \nSection I: Algorithmic Epistemology \n10:00 am.: Gloria Origgi (CNRS Paris) “How Algorithms Deconstruct Collective Hermeneutical Resources” \n10:30 am.: Anna Maria Lorusso (Bologna) “Facts\, Fictions\, Gossips and other Truth Claims” \n11.15 am.: Q&A \n12.00 am.: Lunch break \nSection II: Activism and Philosophy in the Age of AI \n13.15 pm.: Maria Brincker (UMass Boston): “Responsible Agency and the Nature of Surveillance Effects” \n13.45 pm.: Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac) “Israel 2023: A Tale of Two Conflicts” \n14.15 pm.: Q&A \n15.00 pm.: Coffee break \nSection III: Artificial Relations \n15.15 pm.: Filipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco\, online): “Artificial Affects: Making AI a tool for Social Freedom” \n15.45 pm.: Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston\, online): “AI Friendship: On the Uncontrollability of the Other”
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/international-workshop-ai-political-conflict/
LOCATION:Media Futures at Media City Bergen\, 3rd Floor\, SUJO Undervisningsrom
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SUMMARY:Humaniora meets Artifical Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:UHR-Humaniora and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen invite to a conference on artificial intelligence and the humanities on May 31st. \nThe event will be in Norwegian.\nArtificial intelligence (AI) has opened up new possibilities for how we communicate\, create art\, and participate in democracy. However\, while the development of AI is often led by quantitative disciplines\, there is a growing need for insights from the humanities. The deep understanding of texts and cultural expressions provided by the humanities is crucial for guiding the development of AI in ways that both respect and reflect human experience and cultural diversity. \nThe goal of the conference is to emphasize the important role of the humanities in the development and understanding of AI. Therefore\, we aim to create a forum where humanities researchers can share knowledge\, explore new ideas and methods\, and build networks that can strengthen the humanities’ contribution to AI research. The conference will thus shed light on the ethical\, cultural\, and societal implications of AI\, and how the humanities contribute and can contribute to this exploration. \nThe program is still under development and will be updated and adjusted in spring 2024. \nProgram\nKonferansier: journalist og tidligere kultur- og debattredaktør i Bergens Tidende\, Hilde Sandvik. \n09:00 Velkommen \nPinar Heggernes\, prorektor ved Universitetet i Bergen\, åpner konferansen sammen med Frode Helland\, dekan ved Det humanistiske fakultet ved UiO og leder for UHR-Humaniora\, og Camilla Brautaset\, dekan ved Det humanistiske fakultet ved UiB. \nHvorfor trenger KI humaniora?  \nHva er språkmodeller egentlig?  \nSamia Touileb er førsteamanuensis i språkteknologi og forsker hovedsakelig på etiske og sosiale utfordringer ved språkteknologiske modeller.  I dette foredraget viser hun hvordan språkmodeller trenes\, hva slags data de er bygget på\, og hvordan de stadig blir mer avanserte. Touileb viser eksempler på hva språkmodeller kan brukes til\, i tilleg til å dele noen eksempler som illustrerer mulige utfordringer og problemstillinger ved bruk av språkmodeller. \nKan kunstig intelligens forstå språk?\nChatGPT og andre store språkmodeller viser imponerende resultater i en rekke oppgaver\, som for eksempel spørsmålsbesvarelse\, oversettelse og oppsummering. Selv oppgaver som å skrive dikt eller lage korte historier blir nå utført av språkmodeller. Men hvordan forstår egentlig en språkmodell innholdet i en tekst?  Pierre Lison er sjefsforsker ved Norsk Regnesentral hvor han jobber med maskinlæring og språkteknologi. Han inviterer oss med til en utforsking av hva som skiller en språkmodell fra menneskelig språkforståelse. \nEr kunstig intelligens bra for samisk?\nHva kan store språkmodeller lære om språk med begrenset tekstmateriale\, og hvordan påvirkes resultatene når modellene forsøker å kompensere for mangel på tekst ved å inkludere alle språk i samme analyse? Hilde Sandvik møter Trond Trosterud til samtale om Hvordan kunstig intelligens vil påvirke små språk som samisk.  Trond Trosterud er professor i samisk språkteknologi og leder av Giellatekno\, Senter for samisk språkteknologi ved Universitetet i Tromsø. \n10:00 Pause  \n10:30 Keynote: \nThe AI Mirror: Reclaiming our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking\nShannon Vallor \, professor ved Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly claim to be able to tell us who we are\, what we want\, what we can do\, and where we will go. Yet these predictions reflect only the choices we have already made\, not those still open to us. In this talk\, Professor Vallor acknowledges the power and utility of these new algorithmic mirrors\, while exposing the deception in their promise to define humanity and guide our shared futures. \n11:30 Lunsj  \nKunst\, medier og KI \n12:30 KI-forestillinger og humanioras sentrale rolle: Mellom hype\, dystopi og hverdagsliv\nTaina Bucher\, professor og forskningsleder ved Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon ved Universitetet i Oslo. I dette innlegget tar utgangsounkt i  “HumAIn: Reimagining AI” som er et nytt møtested for tverrfaglig forskning og utdanning innen humanistiske perspektiver på KI. Hubben utforsker både eksisterende historier og narrativ omkring KI\, i tillegg til å ha et uttalt mål om å utvikle nye forestillinger og fortellinger omkring hva KI kan og bør være. \nAI as Artistic Intelligence\nDavid Jhave Johnston is a digital-poet writing in emergent domains: A.I.\, 3D\, VR\, and code. Author-programmer of the multimedia human + A.I. writing art-project ReRites (Anteism Books\, 2019)\, the theoretical-history Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications (MIT Press\, 2016)\, and many online multimedia literary explorations at www.glia.ca. He is currently employed as an Ai-narrative researcher at the UiB Centre for Digital Narrative from August 2023-26 on a team investigating Extending Digital Narrative. He will show and discuss a couple examples of #genAI as “artistic intelligence”\, using AI to simulate and stimulate insights into questions of identity.  \nAIwriting: Creative Practice as a Critical Method for Investigating Large Language Models\nIn this talk Scott Rettberg explores AI chatbots and text-to-image generation systems as writing environments\, and in turn considers how the production of sustained creative works in these environments can serve as critical digital humanities method that reveals the structure\, biases\, operations and effects of the models themselves. It considers the importance and function of human writing\, or “cyborg authorship” within these computational environments\, and their potentialities for new genres of dialogic digital narrative. Scott Rettberg is the Director of the Center for Digital Narrative and a professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. \n13:30 Pause  \n14:00 Shaking the black box: Creative approaches to generative models \nIn this talk Gabriele de Seta showcases some creative approaches to generative models\, which use machine learning to synthesize various kinds of content such as text\, images\, videos or sounds. Inspired by Malte Ziewitz’s idea of “shaking the black box”\, he proposes to a more critical and reflexive interaction with these new computational actors. Gabriele de Seta is\, technically\, a sociologist. He holds a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. De Seta was part of the ERC-funded project “Machine Vision in Everyday Life” at the University of Bergen and is currently leading the ALGOFOLK TMS-funded project at the University of Bergen  \nAvsluttende diskusjon\nHilde Sandvik inviterer til oppsummering og paneldiskusjon med:    \nShannon Vallor\, professor at Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh\nPinar Heggernes\, prorektor og leder for styringsgruppe UiB AI\nTaina Bucher\, professor og forskningsleder ved Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon ved Universitetet i Oslo\nSamia Touileb\, Samia Touileb\,  Førsteamanuensis i språkteknologi ved Universitetet i Bergen\nScott Rettberg\, Professor and Director for Center for Digtial Narrativ ved Universitetet I Bergen \nKonferansen avsluttes klokken 15:00 \nProgramkomite for konferansen:  professor Jill Walker Rettberg (UiB)\, professor Petter Bae Brandtzæg (UiO) og professor\, prodekan Aurora Hoel (NTNU) og professor Gillian C. Ramchand (UiT). 
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/humaniora-meet-artifical-intelligence/
LOCATION:Universitetet i Bergen\, Storsalen\, Nygårdsgaten 5
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SUMMARY:Political news analysis by YouTubers : Initial results from quantitative processing of a textual corpus
DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures Work Package 1 and The Network for culture\, inequality and democracy (KUD/CID) at Infomedia invite to a public lecture on the topic of alternative political analysis on YouTube\, given by Quentin Gilliotte\, Professeur Junior at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris\, France) There will be time for a Q&A.     \nThe productions on digital platforms are becoming an increasingly significant source of information. Within this context\, a large number of actors on digital platforms offer analyses and commentary on political current events. Within the Francophone space\, we find video creators such as HugoDécrypte\, Tatiana Ventôse\, Usul\, and Gaspard G. These actors place themselves in opposition to traditional media (television\, radio) : they advocate for an “alternative” way of handling information\, whether in terms of the audience they target\, the topics they cover\, or the formats they use. How do these different actors address political current events? Considering both economic models and political positions\, what topics are mobilized? \nThe communication will proceed in two stages. Firstly\, I will present the method for constructing the corpus of selected channels through data extraction from the YouTube API\, utilizing network analysis tools. Secondly\, I will present a mapping of the topics addressed by these different video creators based on the automated textual analysis of a corpus of 8740 transcribed videos (representing all videos published by the selected actors between January and July 2023) using a topic modeling method (Latent Dirichlet Allocation).
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/political-news-analysis-by-youtubers-initial-results-from-quantitative-processing-of-a-textual-corpus/
LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008
CATEGORIES:Events,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences
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