OPENING CONFERENCE: How is Artificial Intelligence Changing Science?

Paris, together with SCAI / Sorbonne 3 / October 21-23, 2022

 

Accounts of machine learning, especially artificial neural networks, are currently considered to be the dominant approach in artificial intelligence. How does this form of AI challenge research, ways of knowing, and scientific practices? What problems need to be identified and what critical perspectives are appropriate to describe and evaluate the ambivalences, potentials, and risks of AI technologies, not least in their historical perspective? In particular, the participants of the conference ask how AI can be critically analyzed beyond its relation to big data and in general with a view to challenges of qualities, not quantities.

 

The conference is part of the project „How is Artificial Intelligence Changing Science? Research in the Era of Learning Algorithms“ funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, U Bonn, Vienna and KIT Karlsruhe

 

 

 

Accounts of machine learning, especially artificial neural networks, are currently considered to be the dominant approach in artificial intelligence. How does this form of AI challenge research, ways of knowing, and scientific practices? What problems need to be identified and what critical perspectives are appropriate to describe and evaluate the ambivalences, potentials, and risks of AI technologies, not least in their historical perspective? In particular, the participants of the conference ask how AI can be critically analyzed beyond its relation to big data and in general with a view to challenges of qualities, not quantities.

The conference is part of the project „How is Artificial Intelligence Changing Science? Research in the Era of Learning Algorithms“ funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

howisaichangingscience.eu/conference-beyond-quantity/

howisaichangingscience.eu

 

Programme

 

Friday, October 21

13:30 Start of the conference

 

14:00-14:40

Welcome address

Welcome and organisational information by SCAI: Gérard Biau, Xavier Fresquet

Presentation by HiAISC research group:

Anna Echterhölter, Jens Schröter, Andreas Sudmann, Alexander Waibel

 

14:40-15:00

Coffee break

 

15:00-16:30

First Keynote

Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Sorbonne U

 

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

 

17:00-18:00

Perspectives of Applied Computer Science

Constantin Bône, Sorbonne U

Evangelos Pournaras, U of Leeds

 

18:00-19:30

Second Keynote

Alexander Waibel, KIT/CMU

 

20:30

Conference dinner

 

Saturday, October 22

09:30-11:00

Perspectives of History of Science and Sociology

Margo Boenig-Liptsin, ETH Zurich

Bilel Benbouzid, U Gustave Eiffel

 

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

 

11:30-13:00

Third Keynote

Sabina Leonelli, U of Exeter

 

13:00-15:00

Lunch

 

15:00-16:30

Perspectives of Media and Cultural Studies

Gabriele Schabacher, JGU Mainz

Sabine Wirth, Bauhaus-U Weimar

Clemens Apprich, U of Applied Arts, Vienna

 

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

 

17:00-18:30

Fourth Keynote

Matteo Pasquinelli, U of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe

 

Sunday, October 23

09:00-10:00

Applied AI – Field experiences

Giacomo Landeschi, Lund U

Isabelle Bloch, Sorbonne U

 

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

 

10:30-12:00

Fifth Keynote

Floriana Gargiulo, Sorbonne U

 

12:00-13:00

Round Table Discussion

Sybille Krämer, Leuphana U

Anna Tuschling, Ruhr-University Bochum

Barbara Flückiger, U of Zurich

Gérard Biau, Sorbonne U

 

13:00

End of the conference

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