Philosophy, Misinformation, and Artificial Intelligence

With a quarter of the twenty-first century already behind us, the disruption brought about by changes in information communication technology is very much characteristic of our ‘new normal’. And yet while these transformations – whether for better or for worse – are hardly unfamiliar to us, in many ways we are yet to make fully sense of them. The contention of this Colloquium is that broader philosophical resources from within the Humanities can help us to focus our often all too pixelated outlook on things.

8.30 Registration

9.00-9.15 Welcome

9.15 – 10.15 Session 1: Opening Keynote  

Thinking Through AI and Misinformation with Arendt and Deleuze: The Life of the AI Mind (Tauel Harper, Murdoch University)

10.15 – 11.00 Morning tea 

11.00 – 12.30 Session 2: Transformations (or just Hallucinations?)

Sticky Atmospheres and Affective-Perceptual Diagnostics: Reframing Misinformation through Dorothea Olkowski and Bernard Stiegler (Brent Jones, University of Notre Dame Australia)

From Product to Process: On the Terms of Comparison Between Human Authored and AI Generated Texts (Norma Lam-Saw & Jason Tuckwell, Western Sydney University)

Limiting Information for Epistemic Gain: What Zollman’s Agent-Based Models Say About Scientific Communities (Edmund Hassell, Murdoch University)

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 Session 3: Applications and Implications

From Obligation to Supererogation and Back: The Transformative Role of AI in Organizational Ethics (Jacqueline Boaks, Curtin University)

“An edifice of false pretences”: Revisiting Veblen’s The Higher Learning in America in the Age of Educational Technology (Andrew Hutcheon, Edith Cowan University)

Emotional AI, Consent, and the Right to Oblivion (Adam Andreotta, Curtin University)

3.00 – 3.30 Afternoon tea

3.30 – 4.00 Session 4: General Philosophy Section

“Empathy with the commodity-soul”: Walter Benjamin on the Corruption of Husserlian Intersubjectivity (Joel Bourland, Murdoch University) 

4.00 – 5.00 Session 5: Closing Keynote 

Rational Debates Beyond Facts and Data (Gottfried Vosgerau, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)

5.00 – 6.00 Session 6: Roundtable Discussion Nardine Alnemr (Murdoch University), Tama Leaver (Curtin University), Celeste Rodriguez Louro (University of Western Australia), Marco Rizzi (University of Western Australia)

6pm Society of Applied Philosophy Best Student Paper Award & Reception