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The Humanities and the Rise of AI - Luxembourg, 14-18 June 2020
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The Humanities and the Rise of AI
Implications of Cultural and Societal Engineering
Organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social
Sciences
in cooperation with the Department of Computer Science (University
of Luxembourg)
We invite paper presentations of 20 minutes in one of our 4
sections (see below):
Submission deadline for abstracts (up to 2 pages)
January 31, 2020 - please send to:
cfp@endsofthehumanities.com<mailto:cfp@endsofthehumanities.com>
Travel grants for early career researchers are available. For
further information, please visit
http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/travel-grants/
Digitization and the rise of artificial intelligence forecast
radical change on all aspects of human practice, especially given
the ever-improving abilities of algorithms in tasks like pattern
recognition and their practical application. Powerful technology
arises from AI research, opening the gate for various forms of
cultural and societal engineering, i.e., a reshaping of culture
and society by dint of algorithmic models and ‘intelligent’
applications.
Although the development of artificial intelligence is still in
its beginnings, it has already triggered an enormous rush of
utopian and dystopian thinking. While some dream of immortality
and the vanquishing of poverty, disease, and warfare, others
foresee a grim future for those parts of humanity that will find
themselves outpaced by technology. Potential consequences of the
changes imposed by technological advancement on human practice
reach from the level of the individual, through cultural
techniques, to the organization of society as a whole, raising
fundamental questions which we will address in the four sections
of the conference resp. special events.
Special events are planned by the AI-team around the topics
"Social robotics" and "A technological roadmap for AI after 2050".
We consider a special issue of a high-ranked journal for extended
versions of high-quality computer-science-oriented contributions.
More information will be provided in the coming months.
Invited speakers include, among others:
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- Armin Grunwald
(Head of Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis,
KIT, Karlsruhe )
- Koen V. Hindriks
(Prof. Artificial intelligence, VU Amsterdam, focusing on Social
Robotics, Co-Founder "Interactive Robotics")
- Lyse Langlois
(Scientific director of the International Observatory of the
Societal Impact of AI and Digitization, Université Laval)
Luís Moniz Pereira
(Prof. emeritus of Computer Science at the New university of
Lisbon, author of several books on Machine Ethics)
- Giuseppe Longo
(Prof. emeritus, Centre Cavaillès, CNRS, Collège de France &
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
- Jan Broersen
(Professor of logical methods in AI, University of Utrecht, ERC on
Responsible Intelligent Systems 2013-18)
- Raja Chatila
(Sorbonne, Paris, Professor and director of the Institute of
Intelligent Systems and Robotics)
- Marija Slavkovik
(Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway, Advisory group
on Ethical, Legal, Social Issues of CLAIRE)
Conference sections:
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• Section I – Mind and Consciousness: How does artificial
intelligence impact our understanding of the human mind,
especially in relation to the role of its computational
equivalents that reach more and more aspects of everyday life
(e.g., chatbots, driverless mobility, risk assessment software in
the banking and insurance sector)?
• Section II – Learning and Inventing What are the consequences of
digitization and machine learning algorithms for education and our
understanding of learning and creativity (e.g., in schooling
through adaptive tutors, but also against the background of our
current notion of creativity as a unique human ability)?
• Section III – Reading and Data Modeling How will the increasing
use of computational methodology change the ways we relate to the
past and envision the future (e.g., by reading), both in academia
and in society? How can the enrichment of algorithmic models with
methods and results from the humanities shape and improve
computational assessment of human practice (e.g., data mining of
big text corpora, automated translation, racial bias in neural
networks)?
• Section IV – Complexity and Control: How does the use of
artificial intelligence in all domains of human practice influence
how we deal with complexity (e.g., of society) and human control
thereof? Can computational methods help to reduce, organize, and
analyze cultural complexity, or do they pose a threat to human
control over different aspects of the lifeworld (e.g., security
and network technology, automation of industrial production,
autonomous weaponry)?
Against the background of such questions, the conference aims to
foster an open and critical reflection on the consequences of
cultural and societal engineering. The conference investigates not
only opportunities and shortcomings of AI research, but also
implications and potential structural effects of technological
innovation for the organization of societal practice (e.g., work)
and techniques of cultural self-reflection (e.g., history). It
will not only ask what technologies can do (or will be able to do
in the future), but also how these capabilities can be compared
and related to their human equivalents, e.g., perception,
cognition, and communication.
The original general CfP can be found at
http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CfP-Humanities-and-the-Rise-of-AI.pdf
Dr. Amro Najjar
AI RoboLab
FSTC / CSC
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
CAMPUS BELVAL
6, avenue de la Fonte
L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette
T (+352) 46 66 44 5473
amro.najjar@uni.lu<mailto:amro.najjar@uni.lu> /
www.uni.lu<http://www.uni.lu>