How can history help us think more clearly about AI?
Join us for this event with Emily Kate Genatowski, a historian working in embodied AI whose work brings together historical perspective, digital scholarship and lived experience of human–AI interaction, including her year-long experiment living with a humanoid robot (TED Talk).
This event is part of the OxDSS Public Talks series and will explore how moments from history can help us make better sense of current debates in AI and robotics. Drawing on examples of resistance, reform, infrastructure, mobility and human dignity, Emily will offer perspective on a field that is often shaped by hype and futuristic thinking.
Emily Genatowski is a PhD Candidate in Digital Humanities at The University of Vienna, holding degrees from both Harvard University and Columbia University. As a former lead at Google Arts & Culture, she now conducts experimental research and writes on AI, ethics, regulation, and society. Emily lectures across Europe, leads a national project to standardize citations of AI-supported scholarship, and lives with a humanoid robot in an immersive study of human–AI integration.
This is the first of two events co-organised by OxDSS and the AI Competency Centre. You are welcome to attend either event or both. Register here for Emily’s workshop, which will take place the following day.
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This event is organised by the Oxford Digital Scholarship Society (OxDSS) with support of St Cross College, Oxford and Digital Scholarship @ Oxford.
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About OxDSS Public Talks: “Digital scholarship” (→ What is Digital Scholarship?) has become increasingly important, as the rise of digital methods continues to transform well-established research practices across all disciplines. Through the OxDSS Public Talk Series, we invite speakers from across the University of Oxford and beyond to share insights into how “the digital” has reshaped their academic and professional practice. Here, we aim to enable attendees to explore and discuss how those methods or insights developed within one field may be transferable or adaptable to other or their own disciplines and research interests.
About OxDSS: The Oxford Digital Scholarship Society (OxDSS) is a student-centered society at the University of Oxford designed for scholars to meet, collaborate, and explore digital tools and methods. It provides a space to discuss digital challenges, create research partnerships, and connect with peers, supported by broader digital humanities initiatives across the university.
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