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SUMMARY:In AI We Trust. Power\, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorith
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DESCRIPTION:The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow\, Helga Nowotny\, gave a lec
 ture at the Central European University\, in cooperation with the IWM and 
 the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College.&nbsp
 \;The lecture was preceded by a ceremony to commemorate Yehuda Elkana.As w
 e move into a world in which algorithms\, robots\, and avatars play an eve
 r-increasing role\, we need to better understand the nature of AI and its 
 implications for human agency. Helga Nowotny argues that at the heart of o
 ur trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase control over the
  future and uncertainty\, while at the same time the performativity of AI\
 , the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts\, reduces our ag
 ency over the future.These developments also challenge the narrative of pr
 ogress\, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the
  hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control
  is limited as AI monitors our actions\, posing the threat of surveillance
 \, but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and transfor
 m it into care.Helga Nowotny is one of the most prominent scholars in scie
 nce studies worldwide\, an area that counted Yehuda Elkana as one of its p
 ioneers and promoters. For several decades Helga Nowotny has been one of t
 he most influential institution builders in European higher education and 
 research. She has worked with European intergovernmental and non-governmen
 tal organizations and bodies\, such as the European Science Foundation\, g
 overnmental agencies in several countries of East and West as well as inde
 pendent organizations and committees of scholars. She has taken part in or
  directly led\, the design and establishment of innovative new institution
 s\, such as the European Research Council\, Collegium Budapest or Central 
 European University.The Yehuda Elkana Fellow’s activities are held in pa
 rtnership with Bard College through the Open Society University Network an
 d supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
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LOCATION:Spittelauer Lände 3 \, Wien (Österreich) 
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