Call for submissions Symposium – “After AI” | 17 May 2024 – Deadline abstract submission: 28 March 2024

This is organised by “Shifting Power”  a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project exploring the long-term impacts of AI, particularly those that do not centre (primarily) White, Western European notions of innovation, morality and justice. I have copied part of the call below.

Call for submissions to be found here: https://afteraisymposium.com/

The symposium date: 17 May 2024

Information about:“Shifting Power” and the research project

This UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project explores the long-term impacts of AI, particularly those that do not centre (primarily) White, Western European notions of innovation, morality and justice.

To help us explore the future of this technology, and the consequences we expect it to have on people, society, the planet and beyond, the Shifting Power team is hosting a symposium on what happens “After AI”.

As part of our current explorations into the topic with researchers and enthusiasts from all over the world, we have learned that our understanding of AI and its impacts is often coupled with a sense of urgency, what’s right in front of our faces, the real and present impacts of AI now and in the near future. With this event, we want to look further.

We are therefore asking you to use whatever form of prediction you find relevant – science, intuition, divine inspiration, prophecy, astrology, folklore, etc. – and help us explore the question: After AI?

For us, “after” indexes both a temporality and object of inquiry – something that may come about following another event and something we are chasing. How might we imagine our futures within and without AI (as it is coming to be known, or will be known)? What is your prediction? Will the dreams and nightmares all come to pass? What can we recognise right now and from the past that makes this future happen?

We have a long history, globally, of examining the present and the past through the future. We want this event to be an interdisciplinary and holistic exploration of the future After AI. We welcome anyone who has something to share, be they academics, technology enthusiasts or luddites, artists, activists, healers, etc.