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SUMMARY:ICSA X 2024: "DNA + AI Superintelligence: Utopia or Dystopia?"
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>CALL&nbsp\; FOR&nbsp\; PAPERS&nbsp\; &nbsp\;ICSA X. WORLD CONGRESS</strong></p>\n<p><strong>DNA +&nbsp\; AI&nbsp\; &nbsp\;SUPERINTELLIGENCE:&nbsp\; UTOPIA&nbsp\; OR&nbsp\; DYSTOPIA?</strong></p>\n<p><strong>PASADENA\,&nbsp\; CALIFORNIA\,&nbsp\; USA\, 19 October&nbsp\; 2024 (online via Zoom)</strong></p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________</p>\n<p>Suggested&nbsp\; Themes:</p>\n<p>By the 21st century\, humanity is at an inflection point: Advances in AI and genetic engineering promise unprecedented economic transformation\, prosperity\, leisure\, and curing diseases\, even expanding the human life span.&nbsp\; But the Fourth Industrial Revolution may also usher in an Orwellian <em>Brave New World</em>.&nbsp\; As fiction becomes fact\, Orwell&rsquo\;s telescreen is now the more personalized iPhone that tracks\, monitors\, and potentially controls its user (China).&nbsp\; Tracking/control may become ubiquitous and inescapable with DNA-based AI\, enabling universal tyranny.&nbsp\; Even more ominous are AI&rsquo\;s emergent qualities where AI programs develop new capabilities unknown to humans that concern AI creators.&nbsp\; AI developers at major companies like Alphabet/Google\, Microsoft\, OpenAI\, and Anthropic seek government regulation\, but retain an optimistic mind-set that belies potential challenges of new technologies.&nbsp\; Yet\, there is an increasing awareness that superintelligent AI may become smarter than individual humans.&nbsp\; When AI can use Ernest Hemingway&rsquo\;s famous four words\, &ldquo\;baby shoes\; never worn\,&rdquo\; to compose almost instantly a credible human-interest story\, and even put it to verse\, it reflects an AI genie as a superior poet or novelist.&nbsp\; But AI could just as easily become a &ldquo\;sorcerer&rsquo\;s apprentice.&rdquo\;&nbsp\; A technology that has no soul\, conscience or free will may turn against its creators.&nbsp\; How can humanity tame the digital behemoth\, and prevent a single line of doomsday code by a malevolent agent to end the human saga? Can human creativity control superintelligent AI? Of concern is potential impact on humanity of runaway or &ldquo\;rogue&rdquo\; AI\, recognized by some AI creators\, as in Open Letter on AI existential threat to humanity. How will AI affect human self-understanding in a world where robots can never &ldquo\;love us back&rdquo\; (Turkle 2017: 28)?&nbsp\; In sum\, how can AI as a more ethical\, humane technology benefit all without becoming humanity&rsquo\;s Master?</p>\n<p>All conference participants must pre-register.&nbsp\; <strong>Abstracts (250 words) due: September 15\, 2024</strong>: c/o Dr. O. Gruenwald\, JIS Editor\, 1065 Pine Bluff Drive\, Pasadena\, CA 91107\, USA\, per e-mail (no attachments) to: info@jis3.org. Include: Paper Title\, First &amp\; Last Name\, faculty or student\, institution\, mailing address\, telephone &amp\; e-mail. Fully-developed papers will be considered for publication in the refereed <strong>Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXXVII 2025</strong>.&nbsp\; Web: https://www.jis3.org/icsax2024.</p>
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