Human-Centred AI cross-disciplinary seminar 2

With clarity about who humans are, and what humanism might be seeking in the context of social change resulting from AI developments, what research questions need to be answered? This final workshop is intended to be programmatic for research agendas, identifying key problems in both humanities and computer science which would need to be solved in order to achieve the futures envisaged in workshop 1. Inherently more speculative, this generative process invites the identification of highly challenging questions which can inform not only individual research work but long-running team projects which may not have obvious commercial outcomes, given divergences between commercial incentives and human flourishing. For instance, when AI systems are engineered for addiction -- exploiting human vulnerability in the service of engagement and profit rather than user wellbeing -- what alternative futures of human-AI interaction should be imagined and pursued, and what lines of inquiry are required to make such futures viable?