Since the late eighteenth century, the changing ‘machinery question’ has continued to spark deep social divisions and to stimulate new fields of imaginative thinking, creative speculation, and social and cultural enquiry (including political economy, cybernetics, STS, AI ethics, critical data studies, and digital ethnography).
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have generated new interests, methods, problems, and capabilities across an array of humanities and creative arts disciplines. These have complicated conventional narratives of technological transformation, enabling a deeper understanding of the possibilities and hazards of automation, and the complexities of human-machine relations.
Our 54th Annual Academy Symposium explored some of the most exciting work underway on these issues across the humanities with related institutions and industry fields, in Australia and elsewhere.
Topics included:
- Virtual autopsies and automated morgues,
- The automation of cultural production and cultural taste,
- Human accountability for the actions of machines,
- The ‘explanatory imperative’
- Questions of Indigenous data sovereignty
- Digital human rights.
Details
When
16 & 17 November 2023
Where
Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre, Melbourne
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Program
The program is available here.
Convenors
31 May 2023
Jean is Associate Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) where she is the co-leader of the Data program, and convenor of the QUT node.
31 May 2023
Julian is Director of the ADM+S Centre and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
Program
17 November 2023
In this session, three eminent scholars offer a range of historically-informed reflections upon the relationship between human and machine intelligence.
16 November 2023
Join our keynote conversation to delve into the topic of the 54th Annual Academy Symposium – Between humans & machines: exploring the pasts and futures of automation.
15 November 2023
In the 2023 Academy Lecture Academy President, Emeritus Professor Lesley Head FASSA FAHA explored how the human should be conceptualised in an Anthropocene world.
16 November 2023
In our 2023 Hancock lecture, Dr Thao Phan will explore how, in the making of AI systems and technologies, gender too is being made.
16 November 2023
A 54-year long tradition to officially welcome Fellows.
16 November 2023
A celebration of the Australian humanities community, Fellowship and the Academy itself.
Speakers
16 November 2023
Malavika is the Executive Director of the Digital Asia Hub, an independent, non-profit internet and society research think tank based out of Hong Kong with a regional focus.
16-17 November 2023
Jill is Scientia Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the University of New South Wales.
16 November 2023
Melissa is an internationally recognised research pioneer with deep technical expertise in user experience, sustainability, silicon and platform architecture and workplace transformation.
17 November 2023
Gerard is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.
16 November 2023
Marc is an Associate Professor in Law, and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at La Trobe University.
