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
Find out more about the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons.
17 November 2023
Join a panel to consider what is gained and what is lost from artificial intelligence and new digital technologies – considering Indigenous data sovereignty and issues of data access and ownership.
16 November 2023
Creativity and cultural labour practices have long been considered resistant to automation – how should the GLAM sector respond?
16-17 November 2023
Drop by for a chat with Viv, an artificially intelligent (AI) character, co-created with women living with dementia. Viv is an authority on the experience of dementia diagnosis and living with hallucinations.
17 November 2023
Dr Erica Thompson is one of our keynote speakers, discussing the uses of mathematical models for decision support and the associated inherent social value judgements.
16 November 2023
From the study of Greco-Roman antiquity to fiction and virtual autopsies, join a panel to explore how automation is seeping into life and death.
Speakers
17 November 2023
Jenny is the Director of the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Indigenous Research Data Commons at the ARDC.
16-17 November 2023
Erica is an Associate Professor of Modelling for Decision Making at the University College London’s Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy.
16 November 2023
Marc is an Associate Professor in Law, and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at La Trobe University.
17 November 2023
Richard has written on European (especially British) intellectual history and the history of science in the period 1600–1900.
