Displacement of Human Capacities in Social Media and AI
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Abstract
With the influx of social media and artificial intelligence into the everyday lives of people today, there is a critical need to understand the ‘source code’ of these technologies and how they relate to human capacities. The need for a social connection and the process of socializing has been transferred to the digital world through social media, while the thinking and decision making faculty has begun to be transferred via AI. This talk will highlight the fallacy of the ‘tool’ metaphor as an outdated analogy for these technologies, and how they generate a ‘short circuit’: the mechanism of thoughtless isolation.
Presenter Biography
Dr. Gopi Krishna Vijaya is from Bangalore, India. He has completed his undergraduate physics training from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India), and his PhD in Physics (Solar Energy) from the University of Houston in 2014. He is currently the Science Director of the Foundation for Cultural Renewal, and also engaged in the Postdoctoral Research of the Reciprocal System of Physics – a way to inculcate Goethean thought into modern physics – in Salt Lake City.
In physics, he has been the author of journal publications in semiconductor physics, presented his work in multiple international conferences (IEEEPVSC, SPIE etc.), served as a research mentor for students and collaborated with MIT, Cal Tech, Imperial College London, UNSW and the University of Tokyo on Solar Energy. Apart from physics, his work spans geometry, chemistry, social threefolding, pedagogy, philosophy, as well as the relationship of digital technology to society, which are available at www.gopivijaya.com