Vernacular AI

Artificial Intelligence has exploded into public awareness over the last few years, debates have tended to focus on either cognition or risk. This symposium shifts the focus from these theoretical problems — might machine think? Might they then kill us? — to the mundane world of Really Existing AI we now live in. Questions of culture, equity, and contending with sprawling and often disjointed digital systems are the focus as we put the microscope over Large Language Models and more. 

Hosted by the Remarque Institute, co-sponsored by the Center for Data Science, the Material Texts Working Group (English), the department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Poetics and Theory, and the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness.