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Contestations.AI 23rd Oct. Live Stream. Transdisciplinary Symposium on AI, Human Rights and Warfare

                Dear all,

I am sharing the information for this live streamed conference on behalf 
of the organizer Nitin Sawhney.

Here goes below.

Best
Jascha

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*Contestations.AI*
*Transdisciplinary Symposium on AI, Human Rights and Warfare*
*October 23, 2024*
The Train Factory, Helsinki
Website: https://contestations.ai

*About the Symposium*
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data analytics and Automated Decision 
Making (ADM) are increasingly being used for surveillance, targeting, 
and autonomous drone warfare, in addition to proliferating 
misinformation on social media during war and conflicts. Conversely, 
these technologies are also leveraged for investigation of human rights 
violations as done by members of Forensic Architecture and Bellingcat. 
How should researchers, scholars, government actors and civil society 
engage and act critically to highlight, investigate, and prevent the use 
of AI-based systems in perpetuating human rights violations and warfare 
and devise critical policies and practices that mitigate harms to 
society today?

This symposium brings critical perspectives from AI researchers, social 
scientists, investigative journalists, and scholars in International 
Humanitarian Law (IHL), human rights, Members of Parliament, and NGOs 
dealing with these concerns. We will examine these aspects in the 
context of ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, among others globally, 
from the role of AI for spreading misinformation in war, to autonomous 
warfare, and investigative journalism to uncover human rights 
violations. The symposium will also insert the question of technology 
into its larger social and political context, particularly examining 
questions such as the geopolitics of technology, securitisation of the 
nation state-system, and the role of corporate interests in 
technologized warfare. Our aim is to encourage inter-disciplinary and 
critical theorizing on such topics, while developing an action agenda 
for future research and pragmatic societal outcomes.

In addition to talks and panels, the event will showcase experimental 
works of media artists critically engaging contestations in AI 
technologies and society.

*The symposium takes place just before the United Nations Day on October 
24th.
>> Nitin
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>> Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D.
>> Professor of Practice, Aalto University
>> CRAI-CIS Research Group
>> Department of Computer Science
>> Konemiehentie 2, Room B345
>> 02150 Espoo, Finland
>> crai-cis.aalto.fi
>> nitinsawhney.org
>> +358 452708868
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> *Jascha Bareis*(Profile) 
> (Scholar) 
> (LinkedIn) 
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> Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) 
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> Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) 
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> Research Group Digital Technology and Societal Change(FG DigIT) 
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> *Recent Publications*
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> The Trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie 
> Trust and AI together. Big Data & Society 
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> Technology Hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising, 
> with M. Roßmann and F.Bordignon.Journal of Technology Assessment in 
> Theory and Practice 
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> Talking AI into Being: The Narratives of National AI Strategies and 
> Their Performative Politics, with C. Katzenbach.Science, Technology, & 
> Human Values 
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