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Armen Khatchatourov – Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems
February 11 @ 12:00 pm | Humanities 1, Room 210
Join us for a thought-provoking talk with Armen Khatchatourov on “Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems.”
If you are unable to make it in person, you can attend virtually via Zoom.
The rapid proliferation of AI-based systems has transformed how we understand and relate to normativity. Drawing on Foucault’s insights, Armen Khatchatourov will explore how social norms are translated into dynamic, adaptable AI systems and how these technologies redefine our relationship with normativity through their opacity and adjustability. This talk will present a heuristic approach to unpacking the ways normative concepts operate within AI technologies and their implications for society and governance.
Armen Khatchatourov is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the DICEN-IdF Lab, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France. With a dual background in engineering and the philosophy of technology, Armen has held research positions at leading institutions such as Institut Mines-Télécom and Sony Computer Science Lab Paris. His work spans digital identities, privacy, smart cities, and the societal impacts of Big Data and AI. He is the author of Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy and Control (ISTE/Wiley, 2019) and Corps Connectés. Figures, Fragments, Discours (Presses des Mines, 2022), and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Études Digitales.
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual studies, and undergraduate scholars from computer science, computational media, and creative writing.