Videos

Short highlights from the launch of The Bloomsbury handbook of Posthumanism On the 7th of October, Human Futures celebrated the publication of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism with a book launch at ARoS. This is 8 minutes of short highlights by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Jacob Wamberg, and the co-authors Steve Fuller, Karin Kukkonen, Ursula Heise, and Alexander Wilson.

Cultural Analytics: Two Talks by Timothy Tangherlini and Lev Manovich At the seminar on Cultural Analytics held on the 27th of October, Timothy R. Tangherlini and Lev Manovich gave the two talks: “Cultural Analytics and the Real (Fake) World: Tracing the Rise of Conspiracy Theories through Machine learning” and “Presentation of the book Cultural Analytics".

Responsible AI: Interview with Virginia Dignum. Virginia Dignum, Professor of Computing Science, University of Umeå: "Artificial intelligence is not a magic thing which falls from the sky and just happens to us and decides our destiny. Humans will have to take the decisions about how to develop and implement AI technologies that can help solve problems and lead to better human lives. Hollywood’s killer AI robots could not be further from the reality of artificial intelligence. But still there lots of challenges and possible dangers."

Responsible AI: Interview with Johanna Seibt Johanna Seibt, Professor of Philosophy, Aarhus University: "Development of systems of artificial intelligence is driven by technology and by engineers. But philosophers and social scientists should play a dominant role in understanding and prescribing ways in which AI-systems can enhance human wellbeing. When engineers want to build a weeding robot, they would always go to a botanist. But why don’t they quite as naturally turn to experts on social behavior when developing a social robot?"

Literature and Posthumanism Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is interviewed by Dr. Francesca Ferrando. Recorded at Digital Studio, New York University (NYU), New York City, September 2019.

Evolution and Transhumanism Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is interviewed by Dr. Francesca Ferrando. Recorded at Digital Studio, New York University (NYU), New York City, September 2019.