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THE POWER OF NARRATIVES ACROSS DISCIPLINES: A CREATIVE MINI-CONFERENCE
Organizer: UGA Torrance Center (Director - Anna Abraham)
Date: Oct 12, 2022
Speaker: Kimberly Van Orman (UGA, Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Talk Title: How Do We Teach Students to Save the World? Use Science Fiction!
Talk Summary: The advances in AI are coming fast and most of us interact with it in ways we couldn’t have imagined as children. But, a lot of this innovation is causing real harm—machines are picking up the same biases found in the broader culture but adding a sense of “objectivity.” Students see technological progress as inevitable and can’t imagine what they could do to intervene, even when they see the ethical issues. Dr. van Orman plan to incorporate science fiction as a means of helping them to imagine possible worlds and hope that by imagining different futures, they feel more empowered to try to create them.
The University of Georgia
copyright © 2022
THE POWER OF NARRATIVES ACROSS DISCIPLINES: A CREATIVE MINI-CONFERENCE
Organizer: UGA Torrance Center (Director - Anna Abraham)
Date: Oct 12, 2022
Speaker: Kimberly Van Orman (UGA, Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Talk Title: How Do We Teach Students to Save the World? Use Science Fiction!
Talk Summary: The advances in AI are coming fast and most of us interact with it in ways we couldn’t have imagined as children. But, a lot of this innovation is causing real harm—machines are picking up the same biases found in the broader culture but adding a sense of “objectivity.” Students see technological progress as inevitable and can’t imagine what they could do to intervene, even when they see the ethical issues. Dr. van Orman plan to incorporate science fiction as a means of helping them to imagine possible worlds and hope that by imagining different futures, they feel more empowered to try to create them.
The University of Georgia
copyright © 2022
