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International Workshop: “AI & Political Conflict”
May 30 @ 09:00 - May 31 @ 17:00
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.
We 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.
Our 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.
The 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.
Confirmed speakers for the event include
- Keynote by Natali Helberger (Amsterdam)
- Gloria Origgi (CNRS Paris)
- Anna Maria Lorusso (Bologna)
- João Vieira Magalhães (Groningen)
- Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac)
- Leif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde).
- Carl Öhman (Uppsala)
- Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna)
- Mark Thomas Young (UiB)
- Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston)
- Maria Brincker (UMass Boston)
- Filipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
- Jacob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard)
To join digitally, please open the following zoom link.
First Workshop Day, Thu., May 30th / Media City, 3rd Floor / SUJO Undervisningsrom
09.00 am.: Welcome Notes
Section I: Keynote
09.15 am.: Natali Helberger (Amsterdam, online): “ChatGPT: What is the Impact of LLMs on our Democracy?”
09.45 am.: Q&A
Section II: Algorithmic Injustice
10.15 am.: Jacob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard): “Algorithmic Agency!?”
10:45 am.: Carl Öhman (Uppsala, online): “Gods of Data: Language Models as the personified Authority of the Past”
11.15 am.: Q&A
12.00 am.: Lunch break
Section II: Algorithmic Recognition
13.15 pm.: Leif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde): “Recognition Struggles in the (In)visibilization Society”
13.45 pm.: João Vieira Magalhães (Groningen, online): “The End of Recognition Theory?”
14.15 pm.: Q&A
15.00 pm.: Coffee break
Section III: Political Technologies
15.15 pm.: Mark Thomas Young (UiB) “What’s Missing from AI Ethics: Economics, Politics and Power”
15.45 pm.: Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna, online): “Trustworthy AI as a Politicized Conflict”
16:15 pm.: Q&A
17.00 pm.: End
Second Workshop Day, Fri., May 31st / Media City, 3rd Floor / SUJO Undervisningsrom
09.45 am.: Welcome Note
Section I: Algorithmic Epistemology
10:00 am.: Gloria Origgi (CNRS Paris) “How Algorithms Deconstruct Collective Hermeneutical Resources”
10:30 am.: Anna Maria Lorusso (Bologna) “Facts, Fictions, Gossips and other Truth Claims”
11.15 am.: Q&A
12.00 am.: Lunch break
Section II: Activism and Philosophy in the Age of AI
13.15 pm.: Maria Brincker (UMass Boston): “Responsible Agency and the Nature of Surveillance Effects”
13.45 pm.: Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac) “Israel 2023: A Tale of Two Conflicts”
14.15 pm.: Q&A
15.00 pm.: Coffee break
Section III: Artificial Relations
15.15 pm.: Filipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, online): “Artificial Affects: Making AI a tool for Social Freedom”
15.45 pm.: Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston, online): “AI Friendship: On the Uncontrollability of the Other”
