International Workshop: “AI & Political Conflict”

We are happy to invite to our second international workshop “AI & Political Conflict”, a two-day, hybrid event scheduled for 30th May (Thursday) and 31st May (Friday) 2024, from 9:00 to 17:00 (CET). This year, the Boston-Bergen Forum will be hosted by the MediaFutures Research Centre at Media City Bergen, on the 2nd floor in the Møterom. 

Our goal is to bring together prominent scholars from different disciplines to discuss the impact of AI-based platforms, and their underlying technological, normative, and economic principles, on political discourse, deep disagreement, and conflict.

The event will draw on the Boston-Bergen Forum on Digital Futures—an international research network among the ‘Culture, Society & Politics’ and the ‘Practical Philosophy’ research groups at UiB’s Philosophy Department, the MediaFutures Research Centre Bergen, the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, and the MIT Program Human Rights and Technology. 

Confirmed speakers for the event include 

• Keynote by Natali Helberger (Amsterdam)

• Gloria Origgi (CNRS Paris)
• Nir Eisikovits (UMass Boston)
• Anna Maria Lorusso (Bologna) 
• João Vieira Magalhães (Groningen) 
• Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac)
• Leif Hemming Pedersen (Roskilde).
• Carl Öhman (Uppsala)
• Eugenia Stamboliev (Vienna)
• Peter Daniel Andrews (MediaFutures, UiB)
• Samia Touileb (Media Futures, UiB)
• Alec Stubbs (UMass Boston)
• Maria Brincker (UMass Boston)
• Filipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
• Mark Thomas Young (UiB)
• Jakob Burley (UMass Boston & Harvard)

More information at MediaFutures Research Centre.