Long-dominant paradigms that are rooted in anthropocentrism, Enlightenment rationality, and techno-solutionism are proving inadequate for addressing the challenges ahead in AI system design efforts. This online panel examines the entanglements of posthumanism, sustainability, and AI, exploring what it means to design AI systems in a way that is ecologically attuned, ethically distributed, and socially just and beyond those dominant paradigms in an era of planetary crisis and socio-technical complexity. The panel explores how responsibility might be reconceptualized to account for distributed agency, multispecies interdependence, and the material-discursive entanglements of human and nonhuman actants and examines the implications of this shift for AI-related industries. The panel will also engage the concept of agentic AI—systems that participate in shaping outcomes through semi-autonomous, relational, or co-constitutive dynamics.

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Speakers:

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto)

Heidi Biggs (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Matt Ratto (University of Toronto)

 

Moderator:

Çağdaş Dedeoğlu (Yorkville University & The Posthuman Lab) 

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Zoom link:

https://yorkvilleu-tfs.zoom.us/meeting/register/KKau-mR9Tam8uscEXWvvPg

Supporting organisations:

The Posthuman Lab | Posthumanism Research Institute | Yorkville University

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