About this Event
Artificial intelligence is everywhere in today’s headlines, simultaneously hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough, feared as a looming threat, and debated as if it were an unstoppable force. But AI is not a singular invention: it is a shifting set of technologies and ideas, bound up with the values and power relations of those who build and govern it. To understand AI critically, we need to see through the hype and doomerism, and ask deeper questions: Who designs and legitimises these systems? Who benefits from AI’s promises, who shoulders the risks and labour that sustain it? And, ultimately, why is AI dominating the present moment, and how can we question, resist, and reimagine it?
This workshop marks the launch of the Critical AI Centre at the University of Exeter.
Panel 3: Critical Thought After the AI Turn
Chair: Brett Zehner
Speakers:
Becca Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dan McQuillan, Goldsmiths, University of London
Thomas Dekeyser, University of Southampton
Hanne Stegeman, University of Exeter
Scott Wark, Goldsmiths, University of London
In person attendance only, Roborough Studios RS2.
Event supported by Project ADA.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Exeter Roborough Building, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, United Kingdom
USD 0.00
