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Lorraine Daston on AI, Rules, and Algorithms

Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
“Rules and Algorithms”
Lorraine Daston in conversation with Audrey Borowski

Since ancient times, algorithms have been one of several definitions of rules, but by no means the only or even the most prominent one. Lorraine Daston’s 2022 book, Rules: A Short History of What We Live By, traces the rise of rules of algorithms in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This event will be a discussion of the book, prefaced by a brief introduction to its themes, with special emphasis on the rule-as-algorithm and its alternatives. You can find out more and register here.

This event is part of the “AI and the Digital” series. This series explores how AI and other digital technologies are influenced by concepts of the human and how they can be designed to be responsible, socially just and ecologically sustainable.