Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of AI
Recent advances in generative models are precipitating a crisis of AI-enabled misinformation, motivating further technical solutions to automate the moderation of facts. Yet within these systems, notions of “knowledge” and “facts” are either not rigorously defined, or follow a naive realist model, which excludes the possibility of nuanced and diverse viewpoints. In this talk, I will present an alternative model of knowledge as a material-discursive interaction between a knowing agent and the (virtual or physical) world, and discuss my in-progress thinking on its implications for the practice of building and evaluating generative AI systems and the limitations of knowledge in machines.
Date: 15 November 2023, 12:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue: Please register to receive venue details
Speaker: Jackie Kay (UCL)
Organiser contact email address: aiethics@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: Dr Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green (University of Oxford), Professor John Tasioulas (University of Oxford)
Part of: Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/ethics-ai-lunchtime-research-seminars-knowledge-power-and-politics-ai
Booking email: aiethics@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Marie Watson, Lauren Czerniawska