{"id":4645,"date":"2026-01-28T16:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:44:26","slug":"whos-afraid-of-ai-oct-23-24-2025-recordings-of-conference-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=4645","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Afraid of AI &#8211; Oct. 23 &amp; 24, 2025 &#8211; Recordings of Conference Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whos_Afraid_of_AI_H-bare-hires-1024x394.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whos_Afraid_of_AI_H-bare-hires-1024x394.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whos_Afraid_of_AI_H-bare-hires-300x115.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whos_Afraid_of_AI_H-bare-hires-768x296.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whos_Afraid_of_AI_H-bare-hires-1536x591.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whos_Afraid_of_AI_H-bare-hires-2048x788.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2025 marks an inflection point in our technological landscape, driven by seismic shifts in AI innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/whos-afraid-of-ai-arts-sciences-and-the-futures-of-intelligence-tickets-1660942276059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Who\u2019s Afraid of AI? Arts, Science, and the Futures of Intelligence<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;is a week-long inquiry into the implications and future directions of AI for our creative and collective imaginings, and the many possible futures of intelligence. The complexity of these immediate future calls for interdisciplinary dialogue, bringing together artists, AI researchers, and humanities scholars.&nbsp;<br><br>In this volatile domain, the question of&nbsp;<strong>who envisions our futures is vital.&nbsp;<\/strong>Artists explore with complexity and humanity, while the humanities reveal the histories of intelligence and the often-overlooked ways knowledge and decision-making have been shaped. By placing these voices in dialogue with AI researchers and technologists,&nbsp;<em>Who\u2019s Afraid of AI?<\/em>&nbsp;examines the social dimensions of technology, questions tech solutionism from a social-impact perspective, and challenges profit-driven AI with innovation guided by public values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mind the World<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, October 23, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Suzanne Kite<\/strong> &#8211; Director, The Wihanble S\u2019a Center for Indigenous AI<br><strong>James DiCarlo<\/strong> &#8211; Director, MIT Quest for Intelligence<br><strong>N. Katherine Hayles<\/strong> &#8211; James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature<br>Moderator: <strong>Matt Ratto<\/strong> &#8211; Associate Dean, Research and Professor in the Faculty of Information, U of T<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are the merits and limits of artificial intelligence within the larger debate on embodiment? This session brings together an artist who has given AI a physical dimension, a neuroscientist who reckons with the biological neural networks inspiring AI, and a humanist knowledgeable of the longer history in which the human has tried to decouple itself from its bodily needs and wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:60% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1133873121?h=1fa2d3be86&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"231025_0900_Mind the World\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staging AI<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, October 23, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kay Voges<\/strong> &#8211; Artistic Director, Schauspiel K\u00f6ln<br><strong>Roland Schimmelpfennig<\/strong> &#8211; Playwright and Director, Berlin<br><strong>Hito Steyerl<\/strong> &#8211; Artist, Filmmaker and Writer, Berlin<br>Moderator: <strong>Brendan Healy<\/strong>, Artistic Director of Canadian Stage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How is AI changing the arts? To answer this question, we bring together theatre directors and artists who have made AI the main driving plot of their stories and those who opted to keep technology secondary in their productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1133868463?h=3bd25dc94f&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"231025_1100_Staging AI\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recognizing \u2018Noise\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, October 23, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Marco Donnarumma<\/strong> &#8211; Artist, Inventor, Theorist, Berlin<br><strong>Jutta Treviranus<\/strong> &#8211; Director, OCAD University,&nbsp;Inclusive Design Research Centre<br><strong>Eryk Salvaggio<\/strong> &#8211; Media Artist and Tech Policy Press Fellow, Rochester<br>Moderator: <strong>Avery Slater<\/strong> &#8211; Associate professor of English at the University of Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:60.00% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1133880338?h=39da661590&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"231025_1400_Recognizing \u2018Noise\u2019\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life with AI<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, October 24, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jeanette Winterson<\/strong> &#8211; Author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Great Britain<br><strong>Leif Weatherby<\/strong> &#8211; Professor of German and Director of Digital Theory Lab at&nbsp; New York University<br><strong>Jennifer Nagel<\/strong> &#8211; Professor, Philosophy, University of Toronto Mississauga<br>Moderator: <strong>Nora Young<\/strong> &#8211; senior technology reporter with CBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:60.00% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1133886890?h=db15b24cd3&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"241025_0900_Life with AI\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Social history &amp; Possible Futures<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, October 24, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Memo Akten<\/strong> &#8211; Artist working with Code, Data and AI, UC San Diego<br><strong>Beth Coleman<\/strong> &#8211; Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, U of T<br><strong>Matteo Pasquinelli<\/strong> &#8211; Professor, Philosophy and Cultural Heritage Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari Venezia<br>Moderator: <strong>Karina Vold <\/strong>&#8211; assistant professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, U of T<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:60.00% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1133910149?h=b112e46b4a&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"241025_1400_Social history &amp; Possible Futures\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 marks an inflection point in our technological landscape, driven by seismic shifts in AI innovation. Who\u2019s Afraid of AI? Arts, Science, and the Futures of Intelligence&nbsp;is a week-long inquiry into the implications and future directions of AI for our creative and collective imaginings, and the many possible futures of intelligence. The complexity of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-posts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmolab.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}