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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">you are invited to a work-in-progress presentation by Rosalie Waelen on “Critical Theory and the Philosophy and Ethics of AI”, on 22 April, 1-2pm, in 17 WW 108.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The talk can be attended online at:<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/hqdqCL7EwMfQpZRvnSBfVcyf9jt?domain=macquarie.zoom.us">https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/84641096839?pwd=i58URiqICBaDNprFDsw5JJVDU543G0.1</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Critical theory and the philosophy and ethics of AI<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">First- generation critical theorists, like Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse, showed a clear interest in technology and questioned the meaning of progress in the context of technological development. Think
about Benjamin’s worries about the impact of the camera on the arts (Benjamin 1931, 1969) or Marcuse’s view that industrial capitalism produces a “one- dimensional man,” (Marcuse 1964). However, despite these and other influential contributions to the field,
the topic of technology eventually disappeared from critical theory’s research agenda. As Delanty and Harris put it, technology has been “curiously absent” in contemporary critical theory (Delanty and Harris 2021, p. 94). In this presentation, I first discuss
why the topic of technology should re-emerge on the critical theory agenda. I then make suggestions for how critical theory can contribute to current debates on the philosophy and ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies. Although
critical theory’s potential value for contemporary debates about AI and its normative implications is multifold, I will focus in particular on the links between Axel Honneth’s recognition theory and the philosophy and ethics of AI.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rosalie Waelen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Sustainable AI Lab, which is a part of the University of Bonn in Germany. Her postdoctoral research focuses on the social and economic sustainability of AI, particularly the human labor
involved in AI development and use. Rosalie obtained her PhD in AI ethics from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Both in her doctoral and postdoctoral research, she uses the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory as a starting point for discussing
the normative implications of AI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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