October 31st Tema T exchange with Lucy Suchman
Dear colleagues,
We kindly invite you to the Tema T Exchange 2018:
Meaningful Human Control: the social sciences of automated weapon systems
Professor Lucy Suchman
Wednesday October 31st 2018 1.15-3.00pm, followed by a Reception.
Universitetsklubben, Linkping University
The Tema T Exchange is a high profile public event, held annually to address
issues of public concern. We invite scholars of international renown to lead
us in debate. Past years have featured Don Ihde, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and
Annemarie Mol https://liu.se/en/research/tema-t-exchange.The occasion is
designed to maximise productive exchange and debate, by asking our invitee not
to give a set public lecture, but instead to respond to a series of questions
and comments submitted by a panel of colleagues.
The increased use of automated weapon systems has become an issue of
considerable public unease. The question of their "meaningful human control"
is debated at the UN. Many aspects of our own local and national context are
germane: Sweden is militarily neutral yet has a thriving arms export industry;
Linkping is home to Saab the weapons manufacturer; and there are enduring
issues in a largely technoscience university like Linkping as to the role and
importance of social sciences and humanities. So it is especially appropriate
that we ask how social sciences can inform our understanding of automated
weapon systems.
To discuss these issues we are delighted to welcome Professor Lucy Suchman
(Lancaster University) as our distinguished guest for the Tema T Exchange
2018.
Lucy is an internationally renowned scholar, working within the field of
feminist science and technology studies, focused on technological imaginaries
and the material practices of technology design, particularly developments at
the interface of bodies and machines. It is this longstanding critical
engagement with the field of human-computer interaction that she has recently
extended to contemporary warfighting. She was a leading figure in the recent
campaign against Google providing AI support to a US military programme aimed
at automating the analysis of images from drone surveillance footage [see Op
Ed piece in the
Guardian ]
All Welcome
For information: steve.woolgar@liu.se
All best,
Else Vogel
Postdoctoral researcher
[Linkping University]
Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change
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