Chicago Society Conference on the trending evolution of human beings and technology in the near and distant future. Machines, especially computers, are dominating the modern world. They shape the infrastructure of human society. Machines are normalized in a positive frame as helping to model and make decisions of great importance, linking human beings to each other. But the fact that such relations are increasingly less democratic, equitable, or just and accrue benefit to those who control the machines is subsumed by the techno boosterism of our business dominated planet. The complexity of the networks and vastness of the data landscape is moving toward autonomous decision making. The keynote speaker, Professor Kowolski, expresses his concern about humans loosing control of their creation on the current path we are on. Physicist Max Tegmark , in presentation elsewhere, warns that Artificial Intelligence is increasing the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War.
The panel speakers discuss advances in machines, hardware or software, and how they will change our lives in the coming years. Panelist discuss their research in autonomous vehicles, human / robotic skill integration for customized manufacturing, robotics for aiding human rehabilitation and, if I understood what she said, reverse genetic mapping with big data.
Chicago Society - UChicago International House - UChicago
1st panel -
Tandy Warnow - Founder Professor of Bioengineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Talk: "Grand Challenges in Computational Biology"
Brenna Argall - June and Donald Brewer Junior Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Northwestern University; Faculty Research Scientist, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Talk; "Turning Assistive Machines into Assistive Robots"
Laura Frank - Senior Software Engineer , CenturyLink Labs Talk: "The Future of Distributed Applications"
David Bourne - Principal Scientist, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University Talk: "The Future of Making Things"
Mark Shacklette, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago - Moderator
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