09.07.2024

Lecture: Layla AbdelRahim, "What’s AI got to do with it? The Odyssey of Knowledge Production and Stress through the Ages and into the Future"

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024, 18:00, Layla AbdelRahim, PhD will talk (online) about the relation between Artificial Intelligence and Stress

The Departments of Chinese Studies, Indology/South Asian Studies, and Japanese Studies of the University of Tübingen and the German Society for Time Policy (DGfZP), Berlin, cordially invite you to a lecture that is part of the interdisciplinary seminar "Stress and Daily Life of the Middle Classes in China, Germany, India and Japan":

What’s AI got to do with it? The Odyssey of Knowledge Production and Stress through the Ages and into the Future
A Lecture by Layla AbdelRahim

Abstract. Academia in crisis has been the subject of conferences and publications for several decades now. The novel factor that has recently appeared in this conversation is the unabashed infiltration of AI into the heart of knowledge production in the “Ivory Tower”. However, is the “crisis” really all that new or even surprising? And, if not, what is this phenomenon and what can or should we do about it? Most importantly, what are the implications of the advent of the long awaited technological development for “knowledge”, work, and life? By nuancing our understanding of stress and challenging our precepts about what is knowledge and the nature of technology, I take this conversation beyond the immediate concerns of survival in academia. What if, I ask, what we assume to be the production of knowledge actually leads to ignorance and to the destruction of our world? And, what’s AI got to do with it all?

Bio. Layla AbdelRahim is a comparativist anthropologist. She is the author of two books, numerous essays, and fiction. Her main field is epistemology with a focus on civilization and the roots of violence between human animals and against other animals and the environment. Her work contributes to a range of disciplines, such as anthropology, epistemology, animal studies, literary and cultural studies, anarchism, philosophy, sociology, geography, environmental studies, and education.

You can follow her work at: Get more from Layla AbdelRahim on Patreon

Tuesday, Jul 16, 18:00 (Germany) Online
EST time 12:00 noon, New Delhi time 9:30 PM

or by Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/94593487878?pwd=eDdnQTV3aHMwTkxBazZ0N3l2R0MzUT09)
Meeting ID: 945 9348 7878
Passcode: 202511