Toward Testing AI: Socio-economic view

Prof. Dr. Ralf Möller, Institut für Humanities-Centered AI (CHAI), Universität Hamburg

Öffentliche Vorlesung im Rahmen des Allgemeinen Vorlesungswesens

Entmenschlichung der Diskurse

Reflexionen über Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
Although we are not always aware of it, we are increasingly accompanied in everyday situations by computers and their machine voices, voices that have no emotions of their own but can replicate them, and whose linguistic actions arise not from lived experience but from the statistical modelling. The central questions of this lecture series concern the linguistic, technical, social, cultural, and ethical implications of human-machine discourse in order to highlight ways in which human values, dialogue, and responsibility can be preserved in an increasingly automated world of communication. What can and must be done to ensure that linguistic diversity, as well as the emotionality and autonomy of humans, are not endangered by machines?

Members of the Centre for Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and their guests from the fields of computer science, philosophy, and literary studies will discuss theoretical perspectives as well as concrete examples of the application of automated decision-making systems to the annotation of complex linguistic concepts. The aim is to highlight both the opportunities and risks of discourse with machines.

mittwochs 16:15 – 17:45 Uhr, Phil-Turm, Von-Melle-Park 6, Hörsaal F

Koordination: Prof. Dr. Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Institut für Slavistik / Zentrum für Sprachwissenschaft / Prof. Dr. Luigi Andriani, Institut für Romanistik / Zentrum für Sprachwissenschaft, beide Universität Hamburg