Democracy and AI – The Encroaching Machine: Reframing Rights in the Age of AI

Sheila Jasanoff delivered the keynote address, "The Encroaching Machine: Reframing Rights in the Age of A.I." (March 31, 2023)

What happens to human rights when machines developed to enhance our powers seem ready to assert power over us? Recent developments in AI have unsettled expectations about the firmness of the line between human and nonhuman, emotion and intellect, and person and machine. In this talk, Sheila Jasanoff will draw on comparisons between biotechnology and A.I. to explore how technological change reconfigures our sense of human nature and with what implications for human rights and entitlements.

Program

Welcome

Ben Laurence, Instructional Professor, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, University of Chicago

Opening Remarks

Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the University Library, University of Chicago

Keynote: The Encroaching Machine: Reframing Rights in the Age of AI

Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard University

Discussants

• Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago
• David Gunkel, Professor of Media Studies, Northern Illinois University
• Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the University Library, University of Chicago