Digital Futures for Education: Knowledge, Sense and Sensibility in the age of AI

How can we cultivate knowledge, sense and sensibility in an increasingly rule- and data-driven society? This is the topic for the next conversation in the Digital Futures for Education series.

Seminar

Date:

Wednesday 27 November 2024

Time:

15.00 – 17.00

Location:

Zoom and Digital Futures hub, floor 2, Osquars Backe 5, KTH main campus

Technological developments such as Generative AI – involving machine learning techniques, large data sets, and algorithms – raise new questions in all sectors of society:

• Will AI take our jobs?
• Or will AI create new, more meaningful jobs?
• Will students learn more “efficiently” or learn to think more critically?
• Will citizens passively consume information or actively search for knowledge?

While the list of questions can be made longer, our starting point at the seminar is how we speak about AI and its consequences. More precisely: How do we feel, think, and talk about emerging technologies. How appropriate is rationalization (for example measurement, quantification, cost-benefit analysis) when complexity is high and uncertainty is higher? And what is the role of human judgment in this process?

Speakers at the seminar are Jonna Bornemark, professor in philosophy at Södertörn University, and Nina Wormbs, professor in history of technology at KTH.

Questions can be directed to Teresa Cerratto Pargman, professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University and Director for Outreach at Digital Futures.

A maximum of 50 participants are welcome to join the seminar at the Digital Futures hub. First come, first served!

More information and registration

Digital Futures is a cooperation between Stockholm University, KTH and Rise.