Nina Beguš: ARTIFICIAL HUMANITIES: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN FICTION AND TECHNOLOGY

The event is part of a two-day cycle
A LIE IS DEAD, IS EVERYTHING PERMITTED?
Opening up the terrain of artistic landscapes between fiction and fact

lecture
The lecture explores the relationship between fiction and facts in the context of artificial intelligence, addressing issues of language, culture, mythology, and imagination in the digital environment.
The lecture will be delivered in Slovenian and streamed online, followed by a discussion with the speaker, moderated by Jaka Bombač.

Nina Beguš is a researcher and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. She works at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society as the head of the Artificial Humanities group, which explores the intersections of the humanities and artificial intelligence, with a focus on language technology, cultural imaginary, and philosophy of science and technology. She completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language and AI and the founder of InterpretAI, a consulting and product development company focused on understanding and interpretability of AI. She also collaborates with the Berggruen Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on research related to planetary information flows.