Infrastructures of Autonomy | Beate Rössler
Channel: Alexander von Humboldt Institut for internet and society
Date: 2023-01-26

This keynote by Beate Rössler on "Autonomy and its Political Infrastructures - On being autonomous in the Uncanny Valley" was given at the conference "Infrastructures of Autonomy" at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society on 23 November 2022. 

Link: https://www.hiig.de/events/infrastrukturen-der-autonomie-conference-opening/

Autonomy is a multifaceted concept that carries a key role in discussions about individuals and societies alike. More recently, the term has gained renewed prominence in the context of technological innovation, where it is ubiquitous in variations of "autonomous systems" such as drones, cars, or robots. One notes that "autonomous" in this broad understanding is used as an attribute for (artificial) intelligence or (machine) learning and synonymously with self-determination or adaptability. But autonomy also refers to individual and collective processes embedded in and conditioned by infrastructures. Only in relation to and in the context of media, rules, norms, laws, practices, architectures, materialities, or machines does the idea of autonomy acquire any meaning at all.

The aim of the conference "Infrastructures of Autonomy" was to discuss the conditions, structures and relations that constitute both human and machine autonomy. 

Beate Rössler is a lecturer in ethics and the history of ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

The introduction was given by Theresa Züger, who is the research group lead of the AI & Society Lab at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

The conference was organised in collaboration of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Brandenburg Center for Media Studies (ZeM).


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