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An interdisciplinary forum for discussing Humanities and Social Science perspectives on AI. We trace the historical fascination with building smart machines and discuss implications that machine learning has on everyday lives, culture and society.

Researcher Hannah Pelikan believes that we will see increased conflicts between humans and robots in the future.  In her research, she films everyday encounters between humans and machines to see what happens.

It’s easy to think that communication consists mainly of speech. But much of it takes place through gesture, facial expression and sound. Researchers study how we use much more than words in interaction with other humans as well as with robots.