This talk is offered in connection with Intelligent Machinery, Identity and Ethics by the UW Computational Neuroscience Center.
Speaker: Genevieve Bell
https://cs.anu.edu.au/people/genevieve-bell
Date and Time: 4/15, Monday 7:00 PM
Location: D209 in Health Sciences Building, reception to follow in G207
Title: Decolonising Artificial Intelligence? the arc of the new cybernetics
Abstract:
The idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was codified at a conference in the American summer of 1956. It was summarised to mean the attempts to “make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve the kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.” That initial formulation, a product of a particular time and place, has framed a great deal of research ever since. But where did that formulation come from and what histories are embedded within it and erased by it and why does might it matter? In this talk, Professor Genevieve Bell, will explore the ways in which AI, and our imaginings of it, could be subject to an anthropological intervention.
Bio:
Genevieve is the Director of the 3A Institute (3Ai), Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, and a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) as well as a Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation. She is a cultural anthropologist, technologist and futurist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.
Genevieve joined the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science in February 2017, after having spent the past 18 years in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel’s product development by developing the company’s social science and design research capabilities.
Genevieve established the 3A Institute in September 2017 at the ANU in collaboration with CSIRO’s Data61, with the mission of building a new applied science around the management of artificial intelligence, data, technology and their impact on humanity. The 3Ai is leading the discussion around the future of artificial intelligence (AI) the launch of the world’s first applied science in February 2019. This applied science is focusing on a set of critical questions around autonomy, agency and assurance and how to manage a world of AI, data, technology and its impact on humanity.
Genevieve is the inaugural appointee to the Florence Violet McKenzie Chair at the ANU, named in honour Australia’s first female electrical engineer, which promotes the inclusive use of technology in society. She also presented the highly acclaimed ABC Boyer Lectures for 2017, in which she investigated what it means to be human, and Australian, in a digital world.
In 2018, Bell was appointed Non-Executive Director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Board, she became a member of the Prime Minister’s National Science and Technology Council, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).
Genevieve completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998.Hosted by the University of Washington Computational Neuroscience Center