CZECHIA 2020-21
“What are the computers and robots of our time if not golems? [...] We are living in an epoch of golem-making right now. ”
“Each factory will be making Robots of a different color, a different nationality, a different tongue; [...] they’ll no longer be able to conspire with one another... ”
“How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?”
PRAGUE, Czech Republic
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge and the Department of Security Studies at Charles University are delighted to announce a series of three workshops focusing on AI narratives in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Jewish imaginary, Eastern European science fiction, and the contemporary perceptions of AI in the region.
CFI has launched the Global AI Narratives Project to understand and analyse how different cultures and regions perceive the risks and benefits of AI, and the influences that are shaping those perceptions. You can learn more about the larger project here.
Global AI Narratives: Central and Eastern Europe will consisted of the following workshops:
1. ‘An Epoch of Golem-Making’: Artificial Intelligence and the Jewish Imaginary (12 November 2020).
2. From Čapek to Lem: AI in Eastern European Science Fiction (15 January 2021).
3. AI and Communism: Narratives of AI behind the Iron Curtain (7 May 2021).
For any inquiries, please contact Tomasz Hollanek.
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