Events
Machines of the Social
Artificial Intelligence and Social Cognition
May 23-24, 2024 Wissenschaftsetage PotsdamRaum Schwarzschild
Am Kanal 47, 14467 Potsdam
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If it is true that the mind is a socially distributed power, then the form of the mind seems to depend essentially on the structure of our social interaction. Against this background, the question arises as to what social structure characterizes the computing machines that increasingly determine our social life and behaviour.
This question can be raised with regard to the internal structure of these machines as well as with regard to their role in the social fabric of human communication. It is remarkable that we think of the internal structure of technical agents themselves in social terms, with two social paradigms dominating our thinking: the hierarchical-military model on the one hand, and the network model on the other. As far as the structure of human communication is concerned, the focus of attention in recent years has been on how the algorithms of social media, the activity of bots and the new generation of LLMs are changing the form of sociality and the structure of discourse (networking and de-networking, intensification and polarization, conformism and fictionalism). The workshop asks in what way our machines are internally social and what form of sociality they themselves produce.
Program
May 23, 2024
Wissenschaftsetage Potsdam, Raum Schwarzschild
- 10-10-.15 – Thomas Khurana: Introduction
- 10.15-11.30 – Anna Strasser: In-between sociality: From mere tool use to asymmetric joint actions
- 11.45 -13.00 – Arno Schubbach: Machine Learning and the Social Fabric
- 13.00-15.00 – Mittagspause
- 15.o0-16.15 – Mercedes Bunz: Never Alone: On the Role of Relations and Collectives in LLM’s Calculation of Meaning
- 16.30-17.45 – Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan: Machines for Seeing: How We are Rendered by Computer Graphics
- 18:00 – Rooftop Reception
May 24, 2024
Wissenschaftsetage Potsdam, Raum Schwarzschild
- 10.15-11.30 – Eric-John Russell: Platforms of Proletarianization
- 11.45-13.00 – Matteo Pasquinelli: Contemporary theories of automation in between social and economic forms: An Overview
- 13.00-14.30 – Mittagspause
- 14.30-15.45 – Samo Tomsic: The Politics of Lacanian Structuralism
- 16.00-17.15 – Markus Krajewski – Emerging the social between user, code, and machine
Participants
Mercedes Bunz, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Samo Tomsic, Markus Krajewski, Isabel Sickenberger, Anna Strasser, Matteo Pasquinelli, Arno Schubbach, Eric-John Russell, Thomas Khurana, Laurin Wüst, Leonie Stibor, David Jacobs, Leon Heim
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Organizers
Eric-John Russell, Arno Schubbach, Thomas Khurana
Image
Hito Steyerl, “Animal Spirits” at Kunsthaus Graz (2022)