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Interdisciplinary online lecture series in Summer Term 2021, jointly hosted by the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum; the European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina; and the Philosophy of Computing Group, Warsaw University of Technology
Artificial Intelligence and its implications for society and human self-understanding are one of the key topics of contemporary academic and public discourse. While there are various research institutions dedicated to AI ethics and policy in particular, what still seems to be missing from the picture is an integrated humanities perspective that combines expertise from the history, philosophy and social studies of AI.
The international and interdisciplinary lecture series »Thinking Machines: History, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence« provides one step towards such an integrated perspective. The series will be jointly hosted by the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum, as part of their traditional »Montagskolloquium«, the European New School of Digital Studies, EUV, Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), TUM, and the Philosophy of Computing group, ICFO, Warsaw University of Technology.
The lectures are intended for a general educated audience but are disigned to be relevant for academic audiences, too. The title of each event indicates its working language.
Programme Overview:
Mon 19 April: Pamela McCorduck, Journalist, New York, USA: »Early AI in the United States«.
Starts at 16.30h.
Mon 3 May: Stephanie A. Dick, University of Pennsylvania, USA: »Making Up Minds«.
Starts at 16.30h.
Mon 17 May: Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh, UK: »The Digital Basanos: AI and the Virtue and Violence of Truth-Telling«.
Starts at 16.30h.
Mon 31 May: Wolfgang Bibel, TU Darmstadt: »Über die Entwicklung der KI in Deutschland«.
Starts at 16.30h.
Mon 14 June: Harry Collins, Cardiff University, UK: »Must Intelligent Machines Be Social Machines?«.
Starts at 16.30h.
Mon 28 June: Vincent Müller, Technical University of Eindhoven, NL: »Where are we going? Future progress in AI«.
Starts at 16.30h.
Mon 12 July: Panel discussion »Algorithms, Trust and Regulation«, with Virginia Dignum, Umeå universitet, SE, Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt, and NN, AlgorithmWatch
Location: Deutsches Museum »Ehrensaal« (in hybrid format if Covid situation allows by then, otherwise online).
Starts at 16.30h.
Changes reserved. This page will be updated continuously, but for more details, please refer to the official website for this series, where you will also find access information: http://thinking-machines.online/
This lecture series is financially supported by Bayerische Forschungsallianz, project BayIntAn_TUM_2020_53.
Organisers: PD Dr. Rudolf Seising (Deutsches Museum), PD Dr. Hajo Greif (Warsaw University of Technology) und Prof. Dr. Jan Passoth (European New School)
Contact: hans-joachim.greif@pw.edu.pl, r.seising@deutsches-museum.de