This is just a quick reminder concerning our online conference Unboxing AI, organized in collaboration with Nexa Center for Internet & Society and INDL (International Network on Digital Labour), and hosted by Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. These three afternoons will focus on the social, economic and material dimensions underlying the current development of artificial intelligence.
The first two days of the conference (November 5 and 6, 3pm-7pm CET) will bring together world-renown experts from a range of disciplines, while the third day (November 7, 3pm-7pm CET), will feature a doctoral colloquium where a selection of works by very promising young researchers will be presented.
Participation is free of charge but registration is required. Just scroll down to discover the program. If you haven't registered yet, you can do it here: https://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/eventi/unboxing-ai-understanding-artificial-intelligence/
(NB: there is a separate link for each of the three dates of the conference).
Please feel free to forward this announcement widely, and see you at Unboxing AI.
Program
All times are in European Standard Time, or UTC+01:00
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Day 1: Registration Link
Chair: Ivana Pais (Università Cattolica, Milan)
3.00 pm – Opening keynote
Janine Berg (ILO) – Automation and Artificial Intelligence at work
4.00 pm
Andrea Miconi (IULM) – Digital Surplus. From Marx to the web
5.00 pm
Nick Couldry (LSE) & Ulises A. Mejias (SUNY) – Data colonialism. Big data and contemporary subjectivity
6.00 pm
Phoebe Moore (Leicester) – Who makes Artificial Intelligence: AI trainers behind the dream
Friday, November 6th, 2020
Day 2: Registration Link
Chair: Antonio Santangelo (University of Turin)
3.00 pm
Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine) – Mediating the human body in AI creation
4.00 pm
Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto) – Boxing AI at Amazon fulfillment centres
5.00 pm
Baruch Gottlieb (University of Arts, Berlin) – Digital materialism. A materialist understanding of digital technologies
6.00 pm – Closing keynote
Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford) – Automating HR: new liabilities, new worker protections
Saturday, November 7th, 2020
Day 3: Registration Link
3.00 pm PhD Symposium Session 1
Vicky Kluzik (Goethe University Frankfurt) – Seeing like a platform
Kai-Hsin Hung (HEC Montreal) – Data workers in India
Idil Galip (U.niversity of Edinburgh) – Digital patronage
Discussant: Juan Carlos De Martin (Polytechnic University of Turin)
4.30 pm – In conversation with...
Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA) – Moderating Internet in a Pandemic
5.30 pm – PhD Symposium Session 2
Lou Brandner (University of Rome La Sapienza) – Freelance Creative Labour
Saverio Minardi (University of Trento) – Labor replacing technologies and labor market inequalities
Jonathan Gruber (University of Zurich) – Algorithmic skills for digital labour
Discussant: Andrea Fumagalli (University of Pavia)