This event will be held in English.
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AI and digital systems are everywhere now, promising a bright future. But they're also taking over our lives without us really noticing. They're designed to prioritize things like consumption, making money, and controlling populations. Plus, the idea that everything is floating in a 'cloud' is misleading. Behind the scenes, it involves digging up rare minerals, exploiting workers, and depleting energy resources.
We need to rethink our reliance on systems that are slowly making everything automated, especially since they're not inevitable - people designed them this way on purpose. Instead, we should pay more attention to the natural world and find different ways of living that aren't controlled by digital technology.
Speaker
Dr. Audrey Borowski is a Research Fellow on the ‘Desirable AI’ project between the universities of Bonn and Cambridge. She gained her doctorate from the University of Oxford. She publishes regularly and her first book, Leibniz in his World: The Making of a Savant is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.
Organizer
Columbia Global Centers | Paris addresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.
Venue
Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Undergraduate Programs, M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement the world over through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.
The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of Columbia Global Centers | Paris or its affiliates.
