CrAIC Launch Panel 2: Critical AI and Social/Data/Science
CrAIC Launch Panel 2: Critical AI and Social/Data/Science
Artificial intelligence is everywhere in today’s headlines, simultaneously hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough, feared as a looming threat, and debated as if it were an unstoppable force. But AI is not a singular invention: it is a shifting set of technologies and ideas, bound up with the values and power relations of those who build and govern it. To understand AI critically, we need to see through the hype and doomerism, and ask deeper questions: Who designs and legitimises these systems? Who benefits from AI’s promises, who shoulders the risks and labour that sustain it? And, ultimately, why is AI dominating the present moment, and how can we question, resist, and reimagine it?
This workshop marks the launch of the Critical AI Centre at the University of Exeter.
Panel 2: Critical AI and Social/Data/Science
Chair: Patrick Gildersleve
Speakers:
Sarah Shugars, Rutgers University
Milagros Miceli, Weizenbaum Institute
Peaks Krafft, University of Edinburgh
Lucy Osler, University of Exeter
In person attendance only, Alexander Building SR2 (formerly TS4).
Room has been changed from Digital Experience Lab to SR2
Event supported by Project ADA.
Banner image: Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CrAIC Launch Panel 2: Critical AI and Social/Data/Science
Artificial intelligence is everywhere in today’s headlines, simultaneously hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough, feared as a looming threat, and debated as if it were an unstoppable force. But AI is not a singular invention: it is a shifting set of technologies and ideas, bound up with the values and power relations of those who build and govern it. To understand AI critically, we need to see through the hype and doomerism, and ask deeper questions: Who designs and legitimises these systems? Who benefits from AI’s promises, who shoulders the risks and labour that sustain it? And, ultimately, why is AI dominating the present moment, and how can we question, resist, and reimagine it?
This workshop marks the launch of the Critical AI Centre at the University of Exeter.
Panel 2: Critical AI and Social/Data/Science
Chair: Patrick Gildersleve
Speakers:
Sarah Shugars, Rutgers University
Milagros Miceli, Weizenbaum Institute
Peaks Krafft, University of Edinburgh
Lucy Osler, University of Exeter
In person attendance only, Alexander Building SR2 (formerly TS4).
Room has been changed from Digital Experience Lab to SR2
Event supported by Project ADA.
Banner image: Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/