DIGHUM lectures: The egocentric I, the undifferentiated we, and I-you attachment; A pronominal political-ethical approach to technological attachment figures from robots to AI

Speaker: Kathleen Richardson, De Montfort University, UK
Moderator: Nathalie Weidenfeld

From so-called sex, love and companionship dolls, robots and AI increasingly presented as substitutes for human relationships, this talk will provide a pronominal political-ethical framework to make sense of this phenomena and why it signifies the end of love. The talk will explore a politics of love rooted in I-you attachment.

About the Series

A roughly bi-weekly seminar offers presentations and panels from worldwide thought leaders. It is typically held on Tuesday afternoons at 17:00 CET. The bidt and the TU Wien are cooperation partners for the DIGHUM lecture series. Digital Humanism deals with the complex relationship between man and machine. It acknowledges the potential of Informatics and IT. At the same time, it points to related apparent threats such as privacy violations, ethical concerns with AI, automation, loss of jobs, and the ongoing monopolisation on the Web. For this reason, a new initiative — DIGHUM lectures — started with regular online events to discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism. We will have one or more speakers on a specific topic followed by a discussion, or panel discussions, depending on the topic and speakers. The exact dates will be announced at least two weeks before.

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Zoom | meeting: 9638 9928 143, password: 0dzqxqiy

Participate VIA YouTube
Talk will be live-streamed and recorded via YouTube Archive and Resources of Lecture Series Abstracts, Recordings, and Slides from Previous Talks