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
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)
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
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