AI and Humanity

Jul 13, 2022 to Jul 15, 2022

Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
9:00 am–9:25 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:25 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–9:55 am		Hard Choices in Artificial Intelligence Tom Gilbert (Cornell University)
9:55 am–10:20 am		AI & Humanity on the Ground: Embedding AI into Critical Clinical Decision Making Qian Yang (Cornell University)
10:20 am–10:45 am		Authorship, Technicity, and Contingency Bernard Keenan (Birkbeck College)
10:45 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–11:45 am		Law's Consumers and Platform Users: How Competing Constructions of Humans Legitimize Online Advertising Lee McGuigan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
11:45 am–12:15 pm		Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Nuclear Command and Control: Whither Sovereignty? S.M. Amadae (University of Helsinki)
12:15 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Large Language Models: Speculating on Second Order Effects J.D. Zamfirescu (UC Berkeley)
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Ironies of Anachronism: On the Afterwardsness and the Necessity of the Human-in-the-Loop Christopher O'Neill (Monash University)
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Large Language Models as a Cultural Technology Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		The Unintended Consequences of Repurposed AI Melanie Moses (University of New Mexico)

Thursday, July 14th, 2022
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am–9:55 am		Design and Governance of Human-Facing Algorithms Sarah Cen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
9:55 am–10:20 am		Intelligent Technology and the Attention Economy: A Buddhist Perspective on the Risks of Consciousness Hacking Peter Hershock (East-West Center)
10:20 am–10:45 am		From Optimizing Engagement to Measuring Value Smitha Milli (UC Berkeley)
10:45 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–11:45 am		Where Does the Understanding Come From When Explaining Automated Decision-making Systems? Kacper Sokol (RMIT University)
11:45 am–12:15 pm		Assistive Teaching of Motor Control Tasks to Humans Megha Srivastava (Stanford University)
12:15 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		The Flaws of Policies Requiring Human Oversight of Government Algorithms Ben Green (University of Michigan)
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		The Future of Good Decisions’: a research paradigm for quality in automated decision-making Connal Parsley (University of Kent)
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Aligning Robot Representations with Humans Andreea Bobu (UC Berkeley)
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		Reception

Friday, July 15th, 2022
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am–10:00 am		Reimagining the machine learning life cycle in education Serena Wang (UC Berkeley)
10:00 am–10:30 am		Designing Human-Aware Learning Agents: Understanding the Relationship between Interactions and Outcomes in Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Yuchen Cui (Stanford)
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:30 am		Race Beyond Perception: Analysing Race in Post-visual Regimes Thao Phan (Monash University)
11:30 am–12:00 pm		On the Concept of History (in Foundation Models) Fabian Offert (UC Santa Barbara)
12:15 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–5:00 pm		Hike