Struggling with Ignorance in the Nordic STS 2019 conference

The NEGATE project is going to organise the session “Struggling with Ignorance and Uncertainty in the AI-driven Societyin the Nordic STS 2019 conference on 13 June 2019. Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning raise serious considerations related to politics, democratic developments and economy regarding privacy, transparency, safety and the nature of work in societies all over the world. There are considerable uncertainties and risks about AI, including the delegation of decision-making to machines, increasing surveillance, lack of transparency on algorithms and whether technological solutions will overtake the development of governance and policy norms. The accepted papers are related to discussions in ignorance studies, the philosophy of technology, organisational ignorance, the sociology of knowledge and science studies in the era of artificial intelligence. Read more about the abstracts in the two sessions: Parallel sessions 2, Parallel sessions 3