*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.* Call for Papers AAG 2021 Extended Deadline November 5th
Session Title: What to do with Artificial Intelligence? Methods, Epistemology, and Emerging Technologies Sponsored by: Digital Geographies Specialty Group Session Organizers: Margath Walker and Jamie Winders NOTE: This session will be virtual. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Autonomous Systems are attracting significant interest across the social sciences, as scholars interrogate critical questions related to the design, regulation, and societal impacts of these emerging technologies. Geography has contributed to this growing body of work, particularly through research that examines how AI reformulates, impinges upon, and reorganizes space and place, how AI intersects with the “human,” what prospects exist for a counter or radical AI, and what ethical and spatial questions accompany the insertion of AI into war and other conflicts. Implicit in these discussions of AI and autonomous systems in the world around us, of course, is the question of methods – how should geographers and other scholars go about studying, interrogating, and perhaps themselves operationalizing AI/emerging technologies in their research? What does it mean to think geographically about AI as a research tool that aids in our analyses and/or itself an object of analysis in our scholarship? What, in other words, does AI/emerging technologies accomplish as a method or research tool, and how and in what ways can it also be the focus of geographic inquiry? This session offers a forum for geographers interested in the multiple ways that AI and Autonomous Systems have been taken up methodologically. We seek papers whose interventions range from the exploratory to the pragmatic and welcome reflections on topics including: • AI and the complexities of data inputs and outputs • Machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and ‘explainability’ • AI, decision-making, and prediction • AI and resistance, failure, and disruptions • Algorithmic bias and governance • AI, data, and equity • AI and the future of work and workers • AI and its spatial manifestations in the everyday • AI and fieldwork, AI as fieldwork Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Maggie Walker (margath.wal...@louisville.edu<mailto:margath.wal...@louisville.edu>) or Jamie Winders (jwind...@maxwell.syr.edu<mailto:jwind...@maxwell.syr.edu>) by November 10th, 2020.
