Upcoming EIT talk: Rainer Mühlhoff „Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence, or: How to Run Large Computations in Human Brains?“

18 March 2019

Rainer Mühlhoff from the FU-Berlin will visit us on March 18th to present his research on „Human-Aided Artificial Intelligence, or: How to Run Large Computations in Human Brains? - Towards a Collective Ethics of Machine Learning“

The current hype of Deep Learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
has not only been driven by technological progress (advances in algorithms
and computing power), but is linked to a comprehensive structural change in
media culture. Current Machine Learning technologies rely on harnessing
human cognitive resources in hybrid human-machine apparatuses to procure a
constant stream of training or verification data, obtained through human
participation. To enable this participation, human-machine interfaces and
comprehensive media infrastructures have been designed to reach into almost
all areas of social life, turning many internet users into involuntary data
generators. I will argue that these infrastructures of "human computation"
and data aggregation form an integral part of artificially intelligent
apparatuses. Consequently, current AI does not so much resemble the classical
phantasm of intelligence as an autonomous, sovereign and relational capacity
of a spatially contained entity (a living being, a computer), but refers to
an emergent, relational and networked information processing capacity of
hybrid humand-machine assemblages. In this talk, I will specifically explore
some of the ethical challenges that arise when Human-Aided AI is deployed in
predictive analytics and social policy.

When: 18 March 2019, 13:00-15:00
Where: Informatikum, Room G-123, Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, 22527 Hamburg-Stellingen