February 7, 2020
Pre-Conference Kick-Off
Humanities Instructional Building 135
February 7, 2020: 5pm – 6pm Race After Technology: Talk and Discussion
Ruha Benjamin – Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Friday February 21 & 22, 2020
Friday, February 21
Crystal Cove Auditorium
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm Keynote: Bruce Sterling
Welcome Words: Song Richardson – Dean, UCI Law School
Conference & Keynote Speaker Introduction: Amy Wilentz – Literary Journalism Program, UCI; Conference organizer
Keynote Speaker: Bruce Sterling – science fiction writer, Professor of New Media and Science Fiction at The European Graduate School / EGS
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Keynote Panel: The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI
Moderator: Jeff Wasserstrom – Chancellor’s Professor of History, UCI; Conference Organizer
Bruce Sterling – science fiction writer, Professor of New Media and Science Fiction at The European Graduate School / EGS
Michele Goodwin – Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UCI
Paul Dourish – Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics, UCI
Kate Klonick – Assistant Professor of Law, St. Johns University Law School
Saturday, February 22
Humanities Gateway 1800
9:30am-10am Coffee and Pastries
10 am- 11:30 am Controlling the AI Genii: Surveillance and Disruption
Moderator: Kavita Philip – Professor of History, UCI
Neil Sahota – Lecturer, UCI Paul Merage School of Business
Darren Byler – Postdoctoral Fellow University of Colorado, Boulder
Lucy Suchman – Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
Geof Bowker – Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics, Director of Values in Design Laboratory, UCI
11:30 am – 12 pm Lunch
12 pm – 1 pm Luncheon Conversation: Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Eyes in the Skies, Money for Nothing, Algorithms as Artists, and Other Conundrums of the AI Future
Cory Doctorow – co-editor of Boing Boing, blogger, journalist, science fiction author
Rose Eveleth – producer, host, reporter, writer
1 pm – 1:30 pm Coffee
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm AI and Democracy: Bots, Trolls, Phishers, and the Hacking of the Vote
Moderator: David Kaye – Clinical Professor of Law, UCI Law
Noam Cohen – journalist, author
Rebecca MacKinnon – director of Ranking Digital Rights (RDR)
Misha Glenny – journalist
Malavika Jayaram – Executive Director of Digital Asia Hub
3:30 pm – 5 pm Creativity and Work in the Age of AI
Moderator: Erika Hayasaki – Associate Professor of Literary Journalism, UCI
Tom Boellstorf – Anthropology, UCI
An Xiao Mina – affiliate researcher at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard
Lilly Irani – Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies, UCSD
Peggy Weil – artist