Imaginaries of AI: What do experts want AI to be? - Himanshu Verma

Описание: Abstract: The current mechanisms that drive the development of AI technologies are widely criticized for being tech-oriented and market-led instead of stemming from societal challenges. In Human-Centered AI discourses, and more broadly in Human-Computer Interaction research, initiatives have been proposed to engage experts from various domains of social science in determining how AI should reach our societies, predominantly through informing the adoption policies. In this talk, I seek to establish an essential role for social sciences, namely to introduce discursive standpoints around what we need or want AI to be. Bringing examples from the domain of Urbanism and Oncology, I present how the notion of imaginaries can reveal an alternative vision of AI in both the future cities as well as cancer care.

Speaker Bio: Himanshu Verma is an Assistant Professor of Human-Centered AI at the Knowledge and Intelligence Design Group at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). His research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and Social Cognition, and focuses on studying the internal mechanisms that support or inhibit collaboration, and how they can be supported by technological means. In recent years, his research has focused on investigating human-AI collaboration and how AI can meaningfully assist humans in their endeavors.