Abstract
This poster provides an opportunity to learn about the Desirable AI project—a joint collaboration between the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge that is funded by Stiftung Mercator and informed by the European Commission’s negotiations on its Artificial Intelligence Act that will require AI systems to be assessed for their impact on fundamental rights and values. In addition to delivering an exposition of the project’s core strategies for rethinking AI for just and sustainable futures, this poster outlines key contributions from two of the project’s team members—Ana Ilievska and Chelsea Haramia. Ilievska’s research within the Desirable AI project focuses on concepts like moderation, slowness, care, and the realization of human potential, drawing from southern European authors including Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Collodi, Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa, and Srečko Kosovel. These notions form the core of southern thought (Franco Cassano, Albert Camus) and the Yugoslav Marxist humanist school of philosophy, placing human self-realization and moral judgment at the center of human-machine interactions. Haramia’s research considers questions of ecosystemic sustainability, the answers to which may help to prepare humans for a future wherein we share intellectual, cultural, or environmental space with biotic and abiotic others. Discerning the value of systems and of the connections within them requires conceptual analyses of crucial terms and their relations, demands critical explorations of bias, generates expansive ethical debates, and cultivates lessons that may be applied to real-world science and industry projects.
Presenters
Chelsea HaramiaSenior Research Fellow, Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Ana Ilievska
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer / Senior Research Fellow, Department of French and Italian / Center for Science and Thought at the Dept of Philosophy, Stanford University / University of Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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AI; Human Values; Sustainable Futures; Southern Thought; Applied Ethics
