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Michael Peters: I contemplate the creation of a controlled environment where AI changes code and is encouraged to change code as rapidly as possible in a kind of observatory, so we can begin to understand how AI might deviate from human interests and values. Through such an observatory of controlled but accelerated code changes, we can get closer to the idea of how emergent, self-created and modified code might develop malignant strains, and, thereby, we also get a clearer understanding of the forms of mitigation we must grow to excise bad code.

The Ecology of AI Bad Code: Propagation of Error, Malignant Strains and Deviation of Values - PESA Agora In a human-AI discussion, this paper, inspired by Bateson and Wittgenstein, examines the mind of AI and the possibility of AI being able to change and modify its code at will over many generations in an accelerated fashion. In these circumstances, the paper poses the question: how likely will it dev...

Te Kawehau Hoskins and Alison Jones: What is ‘indigenising the academy’ and why attempt it?

What is ‘indigenising the academy’ and why attempt it? We will share some thoughts on what ‘indigenising the academy’ might mean, and why we might attempt it. We come at these questions from our different yet intertwined identities, experiences and lin...

Work has long functioned as a central category in Western thought, linking subjectivity, social reproduction and moral value. In the 21st century, however, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotic process automation is destabilising these connections. As machines absorb cognitive and physical tasks once exclusive to human labour, society must confront the age of technological unemployment. But if machines can perform most work, what does it mean to be human? What role should education play in preparing individuals for futures in which work is optional, devalued or radically redefined?

Work and Education - PESA Agora 1. Introduction: Automation and the Philosophical Crisis of Labour Work has long functioned as a central category in Western thought, linking subjectivity, social reproduction and moral value. In the 21st century, however, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotic proces...