Dr. Paul Pangaro (Visiting Scholar in Computational Design in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture and President of the American Society for Cybernetics)
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Abstract:
If you knew a person had no experience of the world but was good at stringing words into coherent sentences, what would you want from such a conversation? If you had to be trapped in conversation with either a human or an AI, which partner would you choose?
These are questions already demanded of us. Today’s technology attracts us into interactions, mediated by algorithms designed by others, without our knowing what they do.
What is conversation? What do we want by being human?
What are the consequences of questions we are not asking?
Bio:
Paul Pangaro is President of the American Society for Cybernetics and Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture and School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University. His career spans startups, teaching, performance, and consulting. He has been applying models of conversation to the design of interactions and organizations since his Ph.D. in Cybernetics (Brunel UK) with Gordon Pask. His researching and making is grounded in the twin concepts of “design for conversation” and “design as conversation.” He is co-lead of the #NewMacy Initiative where his personal focus is responding to the pandemic of today’s AI algorithms. His work can be found at pangaro.com.