[Air-L] Call for Papers AI-Imaginations

[Majsa Storbeck]

Dear colleagues and friends,

I hope this email finds you well. I would like to bring to your attention the Call for Papers on the topic of ‘AI-Imaginations’ (see also: attachment):

https://www.eur.nl/en/news/call-abstracts-ai-imaginations-future-ai-and-public-safety

"We need better AI. The goal of this symposium is to envision different approaches from the prevailing paradigm of “law & order,” with its vocabulary of “fighting” and “precautionary thinking.” To find a way forward, we need to create socio-technological imaginaries of “AI to come”: new ways of understanding, envisioning and implementing AI that promotes more equitable, humane, and sustainable societies, in which we focus on empowerment instead of repression. These AI-Imaginations can be used as critical drivers of change in our algorithmic society. To paraphrase sociologist David Lyon: “What might happen if AI were guided by an ontology of peace rather than violence, an ethic of care rather than control, an orientation toward forgiveness rather than suspicion?"

The two-day symposium will take place next year, 19-20 June, at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 15th 2025. Would you please circulate the call to colleagues and other interested persons?

Many thanks in advance – and all the best!

Dutch Surveillance Studies