The Interface between Human and Artificial Intelligence: Chinese Approaches in Global Context

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April 10, 2024 | This webinar brought together diverse scholars and practitioners to explore conceptual and practical frameworks for AI-human interaction, with a particular focus on Chinese perspectives. It concludes a series of four closed workshops over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year that brought global scholars from different disciplines (humanities, social sciences, and engineering) together with artists and AI experts to address the evolving interface between humans and AI. Key themes emerging from those conversations included the importance of rethinking accountability amid an ongoing technological revolution and the need for constructive terms of collaboration and co-creation, enabling humans to both learn from and teach AI in innovative ways. A critical issue is how human and machine intelligence will interface into the future, possibly shifting and merging identities in the process.
The emerging scholarly and public debate on these issues has been dominated by voices from the United States and Europe. Given the inherently transnational and global dimensions of the AI revolution, we need to better understand emerging perspectives elsewhere-particularly in China, a technological powerhouse which brings its own philosophical, cultural, and ethical traditions into the conversation. The webinar aimed to further a more inclusive global dialogue on critical topics.
The webinar is co-sponsored by the Georgetown University Representative Office in Rome, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), and the China Forum for Civilizational Dialogue.