Join us for this year’s Ebert Symposium: “Artificial Intelligence Imagined and Realized." The Ebert Symposium’s mission this year is to bridge academic research with broader cultural conversations about the uses of artificial intelligence.
The keynote will be delivered at 9:30 a.m. by Dr. Scott Bukatman, Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. Prof. Bukatman will use science fiction literature, film, and comics to explore how AI helps reveal “the downsides of personality.”
Following the keynote, we will host a roundtable discussion at 11 a.m. on the intersection between science fiction and engineering. The conversation will cover the interplay within real-world AI technologies by concentrating on the portrayals of artificial intelligence in film and popular culture. This conversation will be held between Professors Heng Ji (Computer Science), Alison Duncan Kerr (Philosophy), Ben Grosser (New Media), and Robert Markley (English).
Continuing the discussion from the morning, the second roundtable at 2 p.m. will feature guests from Roger Ebert’s Film Festival. This panel will continue to bring together different disciplines and professions to further our knowledge of how these contrasting perspectives have come to understand AI usage in the world at large. (Location to be announced.)