{"id":97133,"date":"2023-09-28T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T09:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/?p=97133"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:58:39","slug":"cfc-shifting-ai-controversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/en\/cfc-shifting-ai-controversies\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Interventions and Contributions: Shifting AI Controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On behalf of the international research project Shaping 21st Century AI<\/a>, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the ZeMKI, University of Bremen, in cooperation with the research group “Politics of Digitalization” at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), invite to an international conference on the topic of AI controversies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference will hold keynotes, panels and interventions on the topic of AI controversies. Abstracts should be submitted no later than 30 October 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CONFERENCE 
Shifting AI Controversies <\/strong>
Prompts, Provocations & Problematisations for Society-Centered AI <\/strong>
29 & 30 January 2024
Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Controversies about AI abound, especially since ChatGPT took over the Internet by storm, becoming the most popular applications in the Web\u2019s history within only a few months. <\/strong>The current excitement about the perils and prospects of general purpose AI applications like ChatGPT is only the most recent wave of public interest in the long history of \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d (AI). With its metaphysical imaginaries of human-machine symbiosis, anthropomorphic robots and machine thinking, arguably oversized scientific claims and technological developments in this field have always raised concerns. What the current debate makes much more visible than previous attention cycles, though, is that contemporary AI companies and scientists dominate not only the discourse promoting AI\u2019s prospects but also that on AI\u2019s perils. From engineers at OpenAI to research pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, technologists and industry-based scientists increasingly articulate warnings that AI might cause serious and fundamental damage to societies. With this move, the already dominant players are now also occupying the space of public critique, yielding the risk that activism, social science, critical journalism and the arts are pushed even further  to the margins of public and expert debates. Are we currently having the public controversies on AI that we should have, or is AI panic derailing us from actual and relevant concerns? How do we get to the controversies that we need and to the exploration and articulation of society-centered AI?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please take note of the complete call for contributions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go to full call for contributions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submission<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We welcome contributions from scholars of diverse disciplines as well as interventions from civil society, practitioners and developers. Your submissions should engage with the questions and provocations posed in the complete call for contributions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n