Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty research symposium on AI

AI Impact is a day-long research symposium hosted by the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and convened by the department of communication.

We will come together to discuss AI’s benefits and challenges. From deep learning to deep fakes, from robotics to avatars, from ChatGPT to human augmentics, from virtual influencers to socialbots and countless others, we will draw from a broad multidisciplinary understanding of AI to investigate how AI-supported technology can be used for the common good.

AI invites a wide range of hopes and fears. Its potential raises as many questions as answers, and it often resides in binaries between utopia and dystopia; connection and disconnection; social benefit and exploitation. Conversations about AI are riddled with anxiety about its consequences for humanity. Inevitably, the dreams and nightmares rendered by the limits of our human imagination revolve around the same theme: Will AI fundamentally alter what it means to be human? And the answer, despite the countless narratives of anticipation and apprehension is the same: Only if we permit it to.

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