AI day: Between hype and hysteria – AI and the Humanities

2019-11-14

Amanda Lagerkvist, Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics and Media, is keynote speaker at the AI day at Humlab, Umeå Univerity, 18 November 2019.

Amanda Lagerkvist will introduce the project BioMe: Existential challenges and ethical imperatives of biometric AI in everyday lifeworlds (Link removed) (part of the WASP-HS project) which explores the risks and potentials of AI-driven biometric technologies – e.g., fingerprint scanners, voice and facial recognition systems, sensors monitoring heart rate, and so on from the perspective of existential media studies, which focuses on the relationships between our originary human technicity, embodied vulnerability and ethical responsibility.

AI day: Between hype and hysteria – AI and the Humanities. Humlab, 18 November, 10.00-16.00

Amanda Lagerkvist, researcher at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.