AI, Communication, and Reality

Heinrich Böll Stiftung Hong Kong is co-organising two panels related to artificial intelligence in ICAIH 2023 Busan conference with Humanities Research Institute at Chung-Ang University.
 

Date: 2 June 2023
Time: 1530-1730 (Korean Standard Time, GMT+9)
Title: AI, Communiation, and Reality
Venue: Exhibition Center 1 - Room 211, BEXCO, Busan, South Korea

Abstract
Since the invention of text, human communication has been mediated by different technologies. When the new mode of technology became dominant in history, human faced new modes of communication and interaction. In the age of artificial intelligence, human has been increasingly interacting with machines equipped with AI in facing of algorithm-based mobile application, chatbot, social robot, kiosk, and other media. To facilitate machines communicating in more human-like manner, human-to-human communication is datafied to design and train machines. While human communication become data for machines, humans need to learn and develop new communication strategies to promote effective, ethical and inclusive interactions with machines. This fact encourages us to navigate new theory, empirical study, and practice in communication to understand the new opportunities and challenges we are facing with AI.

Objectives:

1. To identify effective strategies for humans to communicate with artificial intelligence (AI) programs;
2. To discuss the impact of human-robot-AI interactions in social reality: occupational changes in care and service industries;
3. To assess ethical risks (such as psychological manipulation) in human-AI communications, and the implications on human rights and commercial practices;
4. To project trends of future social changes brought by human-AI interactions.

Speakers

• Ahram Moon (Korea Information Society Development Institute)
  • Augmentation or Substitution? The role of Generative AI in human labor
• Mamello Thinyane (University of South Australia, Australia)
  • Being human in the age of machines: A Multi-aspectual reflection on collective intelligence assemblies

• Jeffrey Chan Kok Hui (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
  • The Ethics of Communicating with Artifice

Discussants: Bora Kang (Yonsei University), YuneJung Kim (Duksung Women’s University)

Moderator: Rosemary Moon (Hansung University)