Cultural Policy Futures: New Ideas for Volatile Times
Artificial Intelligence: Creativity, Culture, Humans
26th May 5.30-8pm Bradley Forum, City West, 55 North Terrace, Adelaide
Cultural Policy Futures is a one-year collaboration between the Don Dunstan Foundation and Adelaide University’s Creative People, Products and Places (CP3). Four public events will explore different challenges facing South Australia and Australia, imagining possible futures with a practical, policy-oriented intent.
The series launch will feature Anna Goldsworthy presenting her new Quarterly Essay “AI, Self and Culture”. What does AI change about the meaning of being human, their bodies, fragility and memory. How does it change human connection and learning, and what new existential and ethical risks does it bring?
We also have Timothy Erik Ström, an independent writer and editor at Arena Publication. Author of Globalization and Surveillance, his next book, Cybernetic Capitalism, will be published by Verso early next year. Drawing on histories of cybernetics, and the political economy of the “Tech Bros”, he will speak about the impact of AI on our very ideas of human culture and meaning-making.
This followed by a discussion with academic and journalist Ben Eltham, and series hosts Tully Barnett and Justin O’Connor.
Free event, please register for catering purposes.
Tickets