Algorithmic Societies
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
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With its participation in political decision making, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming all dimensions of the public sphere. From modelling urban flows during the COVID-19 pandemic, through to immigration policy and social welfare, the impact of AI is resounding everywhere. Precisely because of its huge transformative power we should not use this new tool without a clear understanding of its limits and potentialities.
What happens when the complexity of social phenomena is reduced only to elements that can be expressed in the language of algorithms? What is the sense of political community or urban assembly when they are redefined as sets of data? What is at stake when we are told that intractable political problems can be dealt with by means of designing an algorithmic model? Moreover, reflection is needed on the values that AI applications are shaping. What is the origin of the biases that permeate algorithms? What interests do they answer to?
In attempting to answer these and many other questions, the seminar offers a space for discussion among experts from such diverse areas of knowledge as urban geography, sociology, philosophy, engineering, history of science, artificial intelligence, and design. Only a multidisciplinary conversation can help to make intelligible the human and social transformations that are presented by the development of artificial intelligence.
Event will be held in English.
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