What the hell is going on with... the human?

How do we attempt to reclaim the human in an AI-dominated world? Join Eliane Glaser, writer, BBC radio producer and Visiting Fellow at Jesus, Joanna Kavenna, award-winning novelist, Laurence Scott, award-winning author of two books, The Four-Dimensional Human and Picnic Comma Lightning, and Maria Balaska, philosopher working in ethics, æsthetics, and language in this round-table conversation. The speakers will contribute to the task of reclaiming the human, by attempting to examine the AI-dominated world in which we have been plunged, without our prior consent. They will explore the psychic impact of suddenly living in a time dominated by a phenomenon that, for all the emphasis on ‘intelligence’, nobody, including the architects of the new technology, appears fully to understand or fully to control. They will discuss the many ways in which human life has already been rendered machine-like; consider the pitfalls of existing articulations of ‘the human’ as something nebulous, misty-eyed or backwards-looking; and assess options for resisting the apparent inevitability of the techno-determinist monopoly. This event is the next in the ‘What the hell is going on….’ series convened by Eliane Glaser and Joanna Kavenna.