About this Event
Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024:
Graduate Workshop: May 6, 2024
Main Conference: May 7-8, 2024
This page offers registration for the main conference on May 7 and 8, 2024.
⚠️ To register for the graduate workshop on May 6, 2024, visit this page.
All sessions on May 7 and 8 will take place exclusively in person.
An annual academic conference hosted by the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Absolutely Interdisciplinary convenes leading thinkers from a rich variety of fields to engage in conversations that encourage innovation and inspire new insights.
Connecting technical researchers, social scientists, and humanists, Absolutely Interdisciplinary fosters new ways of thinking about the challenges presented by artificial intelligence and other powerful data-driven technologies to build a future that promotes human well-being—for everyone.
Conference participants will contribute to and learn about emerging research areas and new questions to explore. Each session pairs researchers from different disciplines to address a common question and facilitate a group discussion. By identifying people working on similar questions from different perspectives, we will foster conversations that develop the interdisciplinary approaches and research questions needed to understand how AI can be made to align with human values.
Schedule
May 7, 2024
Sessions run from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM ET. Exact times to be published shortly.
Registration and breakfast
Opening remarks
Lunch
Break
Closing remarks
May 8, 2024
Sessions run from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM ET. Exact times to be published shortly.
Registration and breakfast
Opening Remarks
Lunch
Break
Closing remarks
Speakers
About the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society is a research institute at the University of Toronto that explores the ethical and societal implications of technology. Our mission is to deepen knowledge of technologies, societies, and humanity by integrating research across traditional boundaries to build human-centred solutions.
Our research community seeks to rethink technology’s role in society, the needs of human communities, and the systems that govern them. We are investigating how best to align technology with human values and deploy it accordingly.
Across all our activities, SRI convenes world-class expertise and diverse perspectives from universities, government, industry, and beyond to develop new modes of thinking about powerful technologies and their role in what it means to be human in the 21st century. We are defining what’s possible, determining what’s at stake, and devising implementable solutions to make sure technologies like AI are effective, safe, fair, and beneficial—for everyone.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
108 College St, 108 College Street, Toronto, Canada
CAD 50.00 to CAD 100.00
