SRI Graduate Workshop 2023: The Limits of AI

We hear so much about what artificial intelligence (AI) can do, but what about what AI cannot do? What can AI not do today, and what may it not ever be able to do?

The 2022–23 Schwartz Reisman Graduate Fellows present a special one-day workshop that will explore the limitations of AI through interdisciplinary perspectives. How can a framing of constraints and limitations guide us to reassess the role of algorithms and their application in different contexts? How can this framing be a useful heuristic device to engage more ethical and responsible design?

This special event consists of a morning and afternoon session. In the invitation-only morning session, a series of small group discussions concerning key themes will cultivate ideas for our afternoon panel discussions. In our first afternoon panel, we will ask how AI’s capabilities may never surprise us. In what ways will AI never evolve in a human direction? Considering this, our second conversation will then ask: in what particular domains might we want to limit AI? If so, how? Through our discussion of what AI might never be able to do, we will interrogate what characteristics and capacities we consider to be uniquely human.

This free event is part of Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2023.