Join experts in robotics, law, ethics and curatorial practice to discuss ethics and responsibility in human-machine interaction. This Innovation Week panel discussion will explore opportunities for innovation that embody care and imagination around the art of being together.

Resting in Emergenc[y], by Kristina Mah; Featured artwork : “Perfect Sleep” by Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne.

More-and-more artificial presences are "with us", finding form as robots that share our spaces. AI listens when no one else will; robots keep company where no one else can; systems suggest and quietly shape what we buy, watch and believe. Innovation churns forward in a “more-than-human” soup stirred by many cooks– some striving for unlimited productivity, others urging us to slow down. How do we understand agency in a world of artificial embodied agents? How do we greet this dawning reality? 

Chaired by Dr Kristina Mah (Science Gallery / University of Melbourne), the panel gathers A/Prof Wafa Johal, Prof Jeannie Paterson, Dr Jasmin Pfefferkorn  and Jemimah Widdicombe— spanning social robotics, law and digital ethics, curatorial practice and the cultures of generative technology. Across their different perspectives the panel explores how human and machine relationships are being reshaped in our institutions, museums and our most intimate relationships. 

Event details
6:00-6:40PM — Drinks and canapés
6:40-7:40 — Panel Discussion

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Enquiries: kristina.mah@unimelb.edu.au