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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 — image0.png *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 >> -- >> 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 > -- > > *Jascha Bareis*(Profile) > (Scholar) > (LinkedIn) > > > Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) > > > Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) > > > Research Group Digital Technology and Societal Change(FG DigIT) > > > > *Recent Publications* > > The Trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie > Trust and AI together. Big Data & Society > > > Technology Hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising, > with M. Roßmann and F.Bordignon.Journal of Technology Assessment in > Theory and Practice > > > Talking AI into Being: The Narratives of National AI Strategies and > Their Performative Politics, with C. Katzenbach.Science, Technology, & > Human Values _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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