BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:693@hiig.de DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190701T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190701T220000 DTSTAMP:20191120T123312Z URL:https://www.hiig.de/en/events/louise-amoore-our-lives-with-algorithms/ SUMMARY:Louise Amoore: Our lives with algorithms DESCRIPTION:From detecting anomalies in the landscape of medical images to drone footage to the influencing of elections\, machine learning algorithm s are transforming radically how we make sense in society. Deep neural net algorithms condense the features of a scene to an output of meaning – s uch as “a man is throwing a frisbee in a park”\, “a woman is standin g at the border fence with a crowd in the background”\, “the protester s are gathering in the city square”. They reduce the intractable difficu lties and the undecidability of what could be happening in a scene into a single meaning that is informing decisions and actions. Is that hate speec h or freedom of speech\, are people pickpocketing or cuddling\, is this a protestor or a terrorist?\n\nIn order to learn how to make distinctions\, however\, today's algorithms require interactions with us and our data. Th e training and adaptation of algorithms take place through the attributes of our lives and the lives of others. This is problematic because the mean ing of our relationships with other beings\, how they come to make sense\, precisely cannot be condensed. How do we begin to locate these aspects wi thin the algorithm’s programme of sense-making in the digital society? A re there counter-methods available to us that resist the clustering of hum an attributes via machine learning? What remains in the digital society of that which is unattributable\, that which cannot be translated into a sin gle numeric output?\n\n\n\n \;\nLouise Amoore: Our lives with algorith ms\n1 July 2019 | 7 pm | doors open 6.30 pm\nHAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1) |  Stresemannstraße 29 | 10963 Berlin\n \;\n\nLouise Amoore is Profes sor of Geography at Durham University\, UK\;  she researches and teaches in the areas of global geopolitics and security. She has particular intere sts in how contemporary forms of data\, analytics and risk management are changing the techniques of border control and security. Amoore has been aw arded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2016-18) for her work on the ethics of algorithms. Her most recent book is The Politics of Possibility : Risk and Security Beyond Probability (Duke University Press\, 2013).\n\n [photospace ids="60835\,60837\,60839\,60841\,60843\,60845\,60847\,60849\,6 0851\,60853\,60855"]\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n18:30\n  Doors open\n\n\n19:00 – 19:15\n  Welcome and introduction\n\n\n19:15 – 20:00\n  Our lives with algorithms\n  Louise Amoore (Durham University)\n\n\n20:00 – 21:00\n  Moderated discussion and questions from the audience\n\n\n\n21:00 – 22: 00\n  Get-together\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThe event will be held in English an d simultaneously translated into German.\n\nFor press accreditation\, plea se contact Florian Lüdtke.\n\nThis event will be recorded and broadcaste d live. By signing up you consent to be photographed\, filmed and/or other wise recorded during the event and to the use of the content in connection with the promotion and public relations of the event.\n\n \;\nMaking Sense of the Digital Society\n\n\nThe current rapid pace of technological change creates enormous uncertainties - and thus the need for explanations that help us better understand our situation and shape the future. The Al exander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Fed eral Agency for Civic Education (bpb) are therefore continuing the Lecture Series Making Sense of the Digital Society that was launched in 2017. T he aim of the format is to develop a European perspective on the current p rocesses of transformation and its societal impact. The first speaker of t his year's series was sociologist Eva Illouz\, followed by Dirk Baecker an d José van Dijck.\n\nWhat our Twitter community said\n@AmooreLouise: expe rts'\; role and self understanding will change through the collaboratio n with algorithms. "\;it becomes difficult to decide against the flow& quot\; #digitalsociety pic.twitter.com/ziTVBQqle9&mdash\; Jeanette Hofmann (@achdujeh) July 1\, 2019 \n\nWe should change our attitude to #algorithm s Should an output of the algorithm determine a decision\, our life?What a re the other ways of reasoning when using #ArtificialInteligence in contra ry to people’s opinions and decisions? @AmooreLouise @hiig_berlin @HAU12 3 #digitalsociety pic.twitter.com/NtT5CbElme&mdash\; Artur Olesch (@ArturO lesch) July 1\, 2019 \n\n"\;Algorithms provide partial accounts. They should be part of decision-making processes\, not THE decision-making proc ess."\;- @AmooreLouise on '\;Our Lives With Algorithms'\; in Ber lin @HAU123#digitalsociety @hiig_berlin pic.twitter.com/mS7wszFSfw&mdash\; The WikiRate Project (@WikiRate) July 2\, 2019 \n\nDeep learning algorith ms can reduce and simplifying reality and also make mistakes. Here is an e xample of #AI mistakes where we can use attention to gain intuition into w hat the model saw @AmooreLouise @hiig_berlin #DigitalSociety pic.twitter.c om/BwuobObyoi&mdash\; Artur Olesch (@ArturOlesch) July 1\, 2019 \n\nListen ing to @AmooreLouise speaking at @hiig_berlin’s #digitalsociety talks: i nstead of asking how we make machine learning algorithms do ‘good’\, l et’s consider how those algorithms are changing what is considered as ‘good’\, she says&mdash\; Zara Rahman (@zararah) July 1\, 2019 \n\n&qu ot\;Everytime an algorithm gives us an optimized output\, let us ask: How could the output have been otherwise? What were the rejected alternatives? "\; - @AmooreLouise bei @hiig_berlin #digitalsocietyEs bleibt wichtig\ , Digitalisierung kritisch &\; ethisch zu begleiten. #4genderstudies&md ash\; Fixing IT for Women (@FixITforWomen) July 1\, 2019 \n\nAlmost ran ho me to re-read both Butler and Foucault following some interesting insights on the future with #algorithms in our lives by @AmooreLouise #digitalsoci ety @hiig_berlin pic.twitter.com/6qZkODgGSI&mdash\; Sanja Bjelica (@sashab jelica) July 1\, 2019 \n\nThe theatre season is over\, and we are very hap py about the finale last night with @AmooreLouise @HAU123. Many thanks to everyone! Stay tuned: Our #DigitalSociety lecture series in cooperation wi th @bpb_de will be continued by @ArminNassehi on 28 August: https://t.co/y FnqC7sMH8 pic.twitter.com/PlC5q2E1GB&mdash\; HIIG (@hiig_berlin) July 2\, 2019 \n \;\n\n\n \;\nRegistration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.hiig.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/A moore-NEU-16x9-59.png CATEGORIES:Making sense of the digital society LOCATION:HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1)\, Stresemannstraße 29\, Berlin\, 10963 \, Germany X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Stresemannstraße 29\, Berl in\, 10963\, Germany;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1) :geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR