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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Ayten Bengisu Cansever
In this study, AI based applications as a power technique produced by governmentality and the points where these applications come into contact with human life are discussed theoretically in the case of Turkey during the COVID-19 period. With the WHO's declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, different countries started to implement different methods based on AI to control the spread of the epidemic and contact tracing. It is possible to say that an application called "Hayat Eve Sığar" is used in Turkey, which constitutes the sample of the study. The installation of this application, which is designed to prevent the spread of the epidemic and to track contact, is left to the "free will" of the people. When this application is installed, a 10-digit code called “HES-code” is given to the individual. The individual is subjectiveized by being reduced to the code. Although it is left to the "free will" of individuals, individuals cannot enter public spaces without a HES code. Beyond that, the application records this information retrospectively and prospectively, when and where the person was, where they went and who they were in contact with. contact tracing apps like HES can invade privacy and open a way for governments to collect data and mass surveillance inconsistent with civil liberties. As a matter of fact, this confidential information is made available to the system for the public's health and in parallel, it is presented to the information of many government officials.
Exploring the Role of AI in Optimizing the Data Pipeline View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Danne Woo
The exponential growth in data has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to manage, process, and analyze data effectively. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key solution to this problem. Text-to-text AI tools such as Open AI’s ChatGPT, Jasper AI and Github Copilot as well as text-to-image AI platforms such as Dalle 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, among others, will play a significant role in optimizing the data pipeline, from sourcing and collecting data to data analysis and visualization. This paper explores the role of AI in optimizing the data pipeline and provides an overview of best practices and tools for implementing AI platforms into each stage of the process.
Trans-inter-mediating Communicative Technologies: Social Media-based Collective Action and Instituted Politics View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Lázaro M. Bacallao Pino
Articulations between social movements and instituted politics is a central topic for the analysis of contemporary episodes of collective action worldwide, given, on the one hand, their inherent conflictive nature and, on the other hand, the collaborative trends that characterise participatory and citizen governance. Based on a systematic literature review of previous studies, this paper analyses the role played by the appropriations of social media by recent episodes of collective action, showing that communication has become a core trans-inter-mediating dimension for understanding the interrelationships between instituting collective action and instituted politics. According to the findings of previous studies, we may summarise the following trends in the communicative repertoires of current collective action: 1) a transition from cyber-activism towards techno-politics in contemporary social movements, in a tendency that brings them closer to the communicative behaviour of political parties in the digital arena; 2) the complementation, in a radically new way, of the processes of visibility and articulation of collective action, generating a dual and parallel process of visibilising articulations and articulating visibilities; 3) the emergence of new capacities of social movements for the importation of new issues into public debate, or thematisation, generating a growing and different access to the sociopolitical agenda thanks to the peculiarities of social media; and 4) the appropriations of ICTs by both social movements and instituted politics becomes a possible line of continuity between both arenas, by providing a space for techno-articulation that would allow to overcome the conflicts between both dimensions.
Pathways to Government Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: Developing Consensus Policies That Can Be Implemented Around the World View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Stuart Brotman
With no federal legislation focusing on protecting people from the potential harms of AI and other automated systems still forthcoming, several states are moving ahead with protective measures for their residents, based on good governance principles. This study reviews several models for AI regulation that are being developed by states such as California, Texas, and Illinois, which may serve as models for both federal legislation in the United States and for adaptation by the European Union and other nations. Specifically, areas of potential consensus are considered, including AI’s advancement of civil rights and access to critical services; the need for greater transparency in AI systems; and potential requirements for undertaking algorithmic impact assessments. Legislative design and regulatory enforcement issues are also included.
Posthumanism - the Coexistence between Humans and Robots : Ethical and Civilizational Issues View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Paulo Bruno Alves
The coexistence between humans and robots, equipped with artificial intelligence, is an increasingly common reality in the 21st century. The Human-Machine binomial that has been fed by techno-scientific research, by authors such as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, has posed several ethical and civilizational questions of great importance. The relationship of human beings with the technological world and, specifically, with artificial intelligence (robots, ChatGPT, cars that circulate without drivers, etc.) has highlighted the lack of effective and clear legislation to legislate this new coexistence, to know its real dimension or even to stop its advance (as has already been applied in Italy). The aim of this study is to present some of these issues and the ethical and civilizational implications, in a world marked by post-modernity, which is moving towards a new anthropomorphism, where aspects such as artificial life, robotics and manipulation are linked.
