Starting November 8th, 2022, the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at the University of Heidelberg will be live-streaming a series of weekly lectures that consider “end of the world” themes in artificial intelligence and climate change discourses, and Late Capitalist consumer culture, among other areas of interest.
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“Misogynistic Algorithms,” a virtual workshop on June 9, 2022, promises to be a fascinating discussion on the cultural basis of the gender bias prevalent in the very coding of AI and robotics technologies.
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By Ellen Nantau In Atlas of AI (Yale 2021), Kate Crawford takes an ambitious and innovative approach to addressing misconceptions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Through the course of her book, she reveals the human and planetary resources being appropriated at every stage in AI industry supply chains and their associated social and ecological impacts. In
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In the introduction to “Robots,” Episode 49 of Words to that Effect: Stories of the Fiction that Shapes Popular Culture, podcast host Conor Reid reflects on how, “from the very first use of the word robot,” in the early 20th century play, R.U.R., “there are tensions and contrasts between the miraculous technological advancement the robots embody, and fundamental issues of freedom and slavery and what it is to be human.” Reid explores these tensions, which “have only increased in the decades since Čapek’s play,” in conversation with Dr. Robin Murphy (Texas A&M University, Robotics Through Science Fiction) and Dr. Teresa Heffernan (Saint Mary’s University, Cyborg Futures: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics).
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