WIRED FOR HOPE
Join us on July 1st from 5:00 PM at the CST for a double book launch featuring Payal Arora's forthcoming "From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech" and Markus Gabriel's "Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity".
Both authors will present their works, offering insights into the intersections of technology, philosophy, and human understanding.
Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University, and Co-Founder of FemLab. In her upcoming book ‘From Pessimism to Promise’ she explains that outside the West, there is a significantly different, less pessimistic, outlook on tech. She makes the case that it is not naive to be optimistic about our digital future, but instead that it is our moral imperative to design with hope.
In "Sense, Non-Sense, and Subjectivity" Markus Gabriel examines the nature of knowledge and human fallibility and argues that the potential for error is intrinsic to subjectivity itself. His work explores how false beliefs and delusions are essential to understanding the human condition, contributing a novel perspective to New Realism and contemporary epistemology.
Following the book presentation, the implications of the books theses will be discussed and alternative approaches to technological development will be explored.
We look forward to your participation!
Contact: c-schaefer@uni-bonn.de
Desirable Digitalisation: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures
The seminar series is organized as part of the ‘Desirable Digitalization: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures’ research project, a collaboration between the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge, funded by Stiftung Mercator. The goal of the project is to explore how AI (artificial intelligence) and other digital technologies are influenced by concepts of the human and how they can be designed to be responsible, socially just and ecologically sustainable.
Contact
Christiane Schäfer
University of Bonn, Center for Science and Thought, Institute of Philosophy,
Konrad-Zuse-Platz 1-3
53227 Bonn