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Call for Contribution: Sociotechnical Consequences of AI. An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Ethical, Organizational, Social, and Computational Dimensions

                Dear all,

We are very excited to share the Call for Contributions for our  
upcoming workshop at the UNC on 13. SEPTEMBER 2024, entitled  
“Sociotechnical Consequences of AI: An Interdisciplinary Exploration  
of Ethical, Organizational, Social, and Computational Dimensions.” You  
can find the extended Call at the end of this mail, the key dates are:

Deadline for Abstracts: 15. July
Workshop on 13. september, 9am to 4:30pm 
in person at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

  We're looking forward to your contributions. If you have any  
questions don't hesitate to ask.

  Kind regards,

  Jana Hecktor


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 15 JULY 2024)

SOCIOTECHNICAL CONSEQUENCES OF AI: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATION OF  
ETHICAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND COMPUTATIONAL DIMENSIONS

International Workshop at the University of North Carolina, Chapel  
Hill, USA (in person)

/13 September 2024, 9 am to 4:30 pm/

AI is increasingly permeating different areas of society and being  
integrated into daily work and leisure practices, organizational  
structures, and ways of thinking about the world. Some of the areas  
impacted by AI and relevant to contemporary discourses are information  
retrieval and knowledge production (business, science, journalism,  
librarianship and education), predictive and evaluative work  
(policing, climate science, health and prevention of disease, finance,  
insurance), as well as communication tasks (customer service, human  
resources/recruiting). Some of the pertinent topics related to AI  
include access and accessibility, social justice, interpersonal  
relationships, skills and competences, cognitive and behavioral  
changes, human-computer interaction and the division of labor between  
humans and machines. Discourse within these fields takes place along  
ethical, organizational, social and computational dimensions. These  
dimensions are deeply interrelated. Addressing these connections and  
intersections is essential for a comprehensive understanding of AI  
systems.

For this workshop, we invite contributions that focus not merely on  
one of the four dimensions but address at least two dimensions  
together in an interdisciplinary way. The workshop aims to not only  
discuss how tools, processes, and relations of AI operate, but for  
whom and why they (do not) work. Additionally, we want to render  
visible the people, resources, processes, materials and politics that  
are often a hidden part of the current AI discourse. We primarily  
welcome paper presentations but are also open to other suggestions for  
presentation formats.

The following list depicts some of the fields and aspects which are of  
interest for the workshop and can serve as starting points for  
discussions, but can be complemented by further aspects.

ETHICAL

● Diversity and inclusion (queer LGBT, minority, indigenous, disability)

● Social justice

● Environmental justice

● Access and use of copyrighted material

● Labor exploitation

SOCIAL

● Care work

● Relationships (human, socio-technical)

● Assistive technologies and impact

 

ORGANIZATIONAL

● Employment

● Job (In)security

● Future of work // New work

● AI recruitment tools

● Human-AI collaboration

 

COMPUTATIONAL

● Mechanics

● Practices of training computational models

● Data quality

● Bias

● Cybersecurity

 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT: 15 JULY 2024

Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words. Applicants will be  
notified by July 22. Please send your abstracts to Laura Schelenz  
(laura.schelenz@uni-tuebingen.de[1]). If you have any questions, feel  
free to contact us. 

The transatlantic team of organizers at the University of North  
Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Tübingen includes Prof.  
Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, PD Dr. Jessica Heesen, Prof. Dr. Regina  
Ammicht Quinn, Jan-David Bühler, Jana Hecktor, Lisa Koeritz, Jimmy  
McKinnell, and Laura Schelenz.
   



Links:
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Jana Hecktor

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR ETHICS
IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (IZEW)

University of Tübingen Wilhelmstr. 19
72074 Tübingen
 

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