Artificial Intelligence (AI)
as digital infrastructure raises the question of its mode of production:
Who is creating seemingly invisible technologies?
What are the material foundations? Who is paying for their service?
Katharina Klappheck want to explore these and other
questions in their lecture from a disabled perspective. The argument will be that disability is a condition of possibility
for AI. This can be traced back to the beginnings of scientific disciplines and their contemporary configurations.
Accordingly,
disability represents the limits of AI. It symbolizes its failings as well as its supposed achievements as a transhuman artefact.
This ambivalence results in moments of oppression, but it also holds subversive potential. The chance of a different world
is a critical point of refuge for reflections on alternative design and politics of digital infrastructures.
Katharina
Klappheck, M.A., is a disabled political scientist. Their research interests include disability, queerness and AI as well
as the politics of design.
Katta Spiel research marginalised perspectives on technology. Their work informs design and
engineering in critical ways to support the development of technologies that account for the diverse realities they operate
in.
Lecture by Katharina Klappheck followed by a discussion with Katta Spiel
https://ail.angewandte.at/program/the-joy-of-being-an-error
