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AI and Other Scientific Fables

  • Danta, C. (Organiser)
  • Sherice Kazzi (Organiser)
  • Ella McCarthy (Organiser)
  • Isabel Richards (Organiser)

Activity: Hosting or Participating in Events › Conference Event

Description

This exploratory two-day symposium engages critically and creatively with the idea of the scientific fable and aims to establish a community in Australia around the topic of AI and literature. How does the literary form of the fable enable a type of speculation that is important to the practice of science? Equally, how have scientific understandings of nonhuman life inspired literary fables, particularly in the genres of fantastic and speculative fiction? How can we think about AI itself as a kind of fable involving human and nonhuman characters and perspectives? This free, catered, in-person and online event is kindly supported by the School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University, the Australian Research Council and the AHRC project, “Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis”.
Period25 Jul 2024 → …
Event typeOther