EVENT
November21Thursday
[11/21 SSRI Open Lecture] Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age
| Date and time | Thursday, November 21, 2024 13:50-16:20 |
| Location | International Conference Room, Kiyoshi Togasaki Memorial Dialogue House |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please apply from this Link. ※QPFD414, QPFD436 students do not have to register it. |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Contact point | Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) ssri＠icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/en/ |
| Comments | Speaker： Professor Anthony Elliott (Bradley Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of South Australia) Abstract： From industrial robots to ChatGPT, and from driverless cars to military drones: AI is transforming all aspects of our lives, from the changing nature of work, employment and unemployment to the most intimate aspects of personal relationships. In this presentation, Anthony Elliott focuses on the complex systems of AI - spanning intelligent machines, chatbots, advanced robotics, accelerating automation, big data - and their centrality to new forms of social interaction, organizational life and governance. He argues, provocatively, that today modernity has come to mean smartphones, tablets, cloud computing, big data, automated recommendation systems and predictive analytics. This has heralded the arrival of what he terms ‘algorithmic modernity’, an altogether new ‘stage’ in the ordering techniques of envisioned human mastery. In this automated order of algorithmic modernity, human agency is increasingly outsourced to smart machines. We should understand this phenomenon, Elliott argues, in terms of a containment of both uncertainty and complexity which the digital revolution in social relations poses, but which ultimately denies answers. Throughout the lecture, Elliott address the new landscape of fear which denizens of the digital world must now cope with and confront. Language：English |
