Karim Jebari: The social impact of AI - Inspirations on what to explore and how to aviod the hype

Karim Jebari, PhD in Philosophy and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies talks about some tools for finding interesting things to study in the field of the social impact of artificial intelligence. And also, advice on how to avoid some of the hype surrounding AI. From the workshop “Why we need research on AI impact now”, that was held at the Institute for Futures Studies on January 21st 2020.

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Anna Näslund

I am professor of Art History at Stockholm University and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My research focuses on visual culture, picture theory and digitization.  The project Selling Pic traces the genealogy of contemporary AI-generated image hype over 200 years of promoting technologies for the production, reproduction, and circulation of pictures on a mass scale. It aims to understand the historical role of pictures not merely as commodities but as agents of commerce. The project focuses on emerging picture techniques in the 1820s, 1920s, and 2020s, examining iconographic and discursive patterns in pictures of mass reproduction (metapictures) and comparing vernacular picture theories—expressed in advertising copy and trade journalism—with canonical picture theories. Rooted in historical material practices, the project seeks to clarify and expand our understanding of how and why pictures play a central role in the work of selling in modern and contemporary societies.

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