Lucy Suchman talks about increasingly automated surveillance and attack techniques in war zones.
Patterns of Life: AI and “Actionable Data” in Warfare
Provocations
Artificial intelligence is emerging as an important element in almost every aspect of human life. Yet little has been said or done about the overall implications of this huge leap forward in technology. How will electoral procedures be protected from interference? Can any semblance of individual privacy be preserved in democratic settings, let alone authoritarian ones? Even the simplest questions still plague us: will we be able to control the intelligent machines we’ve created? will they outwit us?; will we rely on them for the most important things? (Hint: we already do.)
At the Forum for the Academy and the Public’s 6th annual conference, The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI, experts and thinkers of all kinds will come together to discuss these and other AI issues — for example, AI’s effects on climate, work, art, medicine, and war — and to help us understand what awaits the planet as humanity moves into a problematic technological future. Science fiction writers Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow; digital and human rights activists An Xiao Mina, Rebecca MacKinnon and Vidushi Marda; and IBM Master Inventor Neil Sahota, along with journalists, legal scholars and anthropologists, will join us to delve deeply into the ethics and implications of artificial intelligence.
LARB has invited participants in The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI to provide introductory thoughts and ideas for the 2020 iteration of Provocations that will prepare the ground for the debates and discussions at the conference on February 21 and February 22.
Provocations began as a LARB series produced in conjunction with “What Cannot Be Said: Freedom of Expression in a Changing World,” a conference cosponsored by UCI, USC, and UCLA in January of 2016.
Do Coercive Reeducation Technologies Actually Work?
Darren Byler tells a story of the forced reeducation regime in the Uyghur population of China.
Our Neophobic, Conservative AI Overlords Want Everything to Stay the Same
Cory Doctorow looks at the reactionary tendencies of modern artificial intelligence and algorithm-based systems.
Breaking the Frame: The Narratives that Help us Fight Climate Change
Anjali Vaidya talks lessons and takeaways from the UC Irvine "Fire & Ice" conference.
Remote but Relevant
Eric Rignot contributes to the Provocations series in conjunction with UCI's "Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narratives of Climate Change." conference.
Acclimatizing Conservation
Alejandro E. Camacho contributes to the Provocations series in conjunction with UCI's "Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narratives of Climate Change." conference.
Looking Backward, Thinking Forward
Cathy Whitlock contributes to the Provocations series, in conjunction with UCI’s “Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narratives of Climate Change” conference.
Last-of Stories
Elizabeth Kolbert contributes to the Provocations series, in conjunction with UCI’s “Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narratives of Climate Change” conference.
Responding to the Climate Emergency: Socialism or Barbarism
Paul S. Adler contributes to the Provocations series, in conjunction with UCI’s “Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narratives of Climate Change” conference.
Air in the Time of Oil
Gabrielle Hecht contributes to the Provocations series, in conjunction with UCI’s “Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narratives of Climate Change” conference.
