Histories can be made within the blink of an eye. Much attention has been focused on the efficiency and effectiveness of transformer architecture for the generation of historical texts and images. What we see, though, is also a product of political, safety and legal parameters. In this talk, Marnie Hughes-Warrington will explore the implications of these parameters for the production of histories, including the identification of history as a vulnerability in jailbreaking attacks. She will illuminate history as source of particular tension in the global geopolitics of AI and argue for the value of seeking a new architecture for history making in the 21st century.
Marnie HUGHES-WARRINGTON | University of South Australia
Ciclo di seminari: “AI and history”
Coordinamento scientifico:
Andrea Pojer (Università di Trento – FBK-ISIG)
Massimo Rospocher (FBK-ISIG)
Sandra Toffolo (FBK-ISIG)
L’evento si terrà ONLINE in lingua inglese.
E’ obbligatoria la registrazione entro il giorno 18 marzo 2025 alle ore 12.00.
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Speakers
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Marnie Hughes-Warrington - Speaker
University of South Australia
Marnie Hughes-Warrington Is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Australia. A graduate of the Universities of Tasmania and Oxford, she has a global profile as a philosopher and as an historian. Her current work looks at how AI makes histories, and how histories might be made in future which are efficient, safe, and ethical. Her writing has been translated into five languages, over 26,000 copies of her books have been sold, and her theories are taught across the world. She has led or been an investigator on a total of $18 million in grants. Her most recent books are 'History from Loss' (edited with Daniel Woolf, 2023) and 'The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image' (edited with Kim Nelson and Mia Treacey, 2023) and she is co-secretary general of the International Commission for the History and Theory of History. In 2022 she was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for her contribution to higher education governance, leadership, and mentoring.
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