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Dear all This may be of interest, best wishes Clare > > From: Clare Foster <[email protected]> > Subject: Narratives and AI - how the arts influence technology - Roundtable > discussion with the Centre for the Future of Intelligence/CIPN, CRASSH Tues > Jan 23rd 5-7pm > Date: 18 January 2018 08:43:18 GMT > To: [email protected] > > All in the Department of Philosophy are warmly invited to join us for: > > Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network, CRASSH: Narratives and > Artificial Intelligence > > 23 January 2018, 5-7pm > > CRASSH, Alison Richards Building, SG 1 > Chair: Satinder Gill (CIPN) > > The AI Narratives project at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of > Intelligence examines how we talk and think about AI, and considers the > impact this could have on how it is regarded, developed, and regulated, > highlighting the role of humanities research in technological development. > > 1. Stephen Cave: Hopes and Fears for AI: Four Dichotomies > > Rarely has a technology arrived more pre-loaded with associations than the > intelligent machine. We categorise those associations into four dichotomies > of hopes and fears: > > - Ease / Obsolescence > > - Dominance / Subjugation > > - Gratification / Alienation > > - Immortality / Inhumanity > > Stephen Cave is Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of > Intelligence, Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Philosophy, and > Fellow of Hughes Hall, at the University of Cambridge. Stephen earned a PhD > in philosophy from Cambridge, then joined the British Foreign Office, where > he spent a decade as a policy advisor and diplomat. His research interests > currently focus on the nature, portrayal and governance of AI. > > > 2. Sarah Dillon: Displaying Gender > > This paper will take a brief interdisciplinary and intersectorial look at the > displaying and enacting of gender in artificial intelligence technology and > the narratives surrounding. > > Films: Ex Machina, Conceiving Ada. > Novels: M. John Harrison’s Empty Space. > Sarah Dillon is University Lecturer in Literature and Film in the Faculty of > English at the University of Cambridge. She is author of The Palimpsest: > Literature, Criticism, Theory (2007) and Deconstruction, Feminism, Film > (2018). Sarah is a Senior Research Fellow at CFI, where she is co-Project > Lead on the AI Narratives project, with the Royal Society. Sarah is a public > advocate for the importance of the Arts and Humanities and broadcasts > regularly on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4. > > 3. Kanta Dihal: Personhood > > Personhood has been attributed to objects from cars to computers to the > Berlin Wall; the latter has even been married. At the same time, some humans > have been denied personhood. This talk will explore the issue of personhood > in the age of artificial intelligence, with the two robot figures of Sophia > and Pepper as key protagonists… or objects of investigation. > > TV series and films: Humans (UK)/Real Humans (Sweden); Ex Machina; > Kanta Dihal is the Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the AI Narratives > project, and the Research Project Coordinator of the Leverhulme Centre for > the Future of Intelligence. In her research she explores the public > understanding of AI as constructed by fictional and nonfictional narratives. > She has recently submitted her DPhil thesis in science communication at the > University of Oxford, titled ‘The Stories of Quantum Physics. > > > > 4. Beth Singler: AI and Film > > Dr Beth Singler will talk about the series of four short documentaries she is > making on AI and robotics at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, > with help from the CFI, Arm, and Little Dragon Films. She will show the first > half of Pain in the Machine, the first in the series and the winner of the > 2017 AHRC Best Research Film of the Year award. She will discuss how the > dissemination of accounts of artificial intelligence can rely on dominant > narratives and she will reflect on science, fiction, her films, and their > role in public engagement. > > Pain in the Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODw5Eu6VbGc > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODw5Eu6VbGc> > Beth Singler is the Research Associate on the “Human Identity in an age of > Nearly-Human Machines” project at the Faraday Institute for Science and > Religion, where she is exploring the social and religious implications of > advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics. As an associate research > fellow at the CFI she is collaborating on the Narratives of AI project, which > is running in partnership with the Royal Society. Beth is an experienced > social and digital anthropologist. > > > > Chair: Satinder Gill > > Satinder is a Research Affiliate with the Music Faculty, based with the > Centre for Music and Science. She is author of Tacit Engagement: Beyond > Interaction (2015), editor of a forthcoming book on The Relational Interface: > Where Art, Science, and Technology Meet (2018), and member of the Editorial > Board of the AI & Society Journal since its establishment in 1987. > > > > To join the CIPN mailing list, subscribe at > https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-performance-network > <https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-performance-network>; to post > events relating to the concept of performance to the CIPN mailing list, send > to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. 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