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Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 13-18.
Our third and final drop for Season 3 of Humanity 8.0 is now live. The episodes feature the following:
• Professor Lee Basham, the University of Texas-Pan American;
• Professor Ljiljana Radenović, University of Belgrade, and;
• Sun Park, Sociology Doctoral Student, University of Warwick.
❧ Season 3, Episode 13: “On Conspiracy Theories—A Conversation with Professor Lee Basham, Part I” https://youtu.be/sY5Ky7m3cnI.
❧ Season 3, Episode 14: “On Conspiracy Theories—A Conversation with Professor Lee Basham, Part II” https://youtu.be/btfMkcKok3w.
❧ Season 3, Episode 15: “On Enchantment in the Age of AI—A Conversation with Professor Ljiljana Radenović, Part I”https://youtu.be/vp7tJOG3o_s
❧ Season 3, Episode 16: “On Enchantment in the Age of AI—A Conversation with Professor Ljiljana Radenović, Part II” https://youtu.be/KTHWP0UnJ1A
❧ Season 3, Episode 17: “On Generative AI & Intangible Cultural Heritage—A Conversation with Sun Park, Part I”https://youtu.be/X71JKYq7qtA
❧ Season 3, Episode 18: “On Generative AI & Intangible Cultural Heritage—A Conversation with Sun Park, Part II” https://youtu.be/eQfjgIJyAyE
❧ For all Humanity 8.0 episodes to date, please go to: https://humanity8.com/.
❧ Season 3, Episode 13: “On Conspiracy Theories—A Conversation with Professor Lee Basham, Part I” https://youtu.be/sY5Ky7m3cnI
❧ Season 3, Episode 14: “On Conspiracy Theories—A Conversation with Professor Lee Basham, Part II” https://youtu.be/btfMkcKok3w
Professor Lee Basham, in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas-Pan American, shares his thoughts on our post-truth condition, the establishment’s push back on epistemically open democracy, and the upsides and downsides of free speech.
Main Topics: Conspiracy Theory, Truth, Post-Truth, Establishment media, Donald Trump, Framing
Links:
• https://social-epistemology.com/?s=Basham&x=0&y=0.
• https://philpeople.org/profiles/dr-lee-basham-dr-lee-basham.
❧ Season 3, Episode 15: “On Enchantment in the Age of AI—A Conversation with Professor Ljiljana Radenović, Part I”https://youtu.be/vp7tJOG3o_s
❧ Season 3, Episode 16: “On Enchantment in the Age of AI—A Conversation with Professor Ljiljana Radenović, Part II” https://youtu.be/KTHWP0UnJ1A
Professor Ljiljana Radenović, in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, focuses her research on the philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, and the history of emotions. Professor Radenović discusses the concept of enchantment in the context of our evolving modernity and postmodernity, and now the age of Generative AI, where we are moving away from engineered systems whose functioning is understood and can can be explained by those who build and maintain them, and the newly deployed Generative AI system who builder longer able to fully understand let alone explain those systems.
Main Topics: Enchantment, Faith, Christianity, Generative AI, Linguistics, Francis Bacon, Wittgenstein, Art
Links:
• Essays published on SERRC: https://social-epistemology.com/tag/ljiljana-radenovic/.
• Research work available via Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Ljiljana-Radenovic-26035288.
• Papers available via PhiPaper: https://philpapers.org/s/Radenovic%2C%20Ljiljana.
• Lecture: “Science, Faith, and Superstition: An Introduction” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI27PV4a7QA.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ljiljana1972.
❧ Season 3, Episode 17: “On Generative AI & Intangible Cultural Heritage—A Conversation with Sun Park, Part I”https://youtu.be/X71JKYq7qtA
❧ Season 3, Episode 18: “On Generative AI & Intangible Cultural Heritage—A Conversation with Sun Park, Part II” https://youtu.be/eQfjgIJyAyE
Sun Park is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at The University of Warwick working on a dissertation that explores the evolution of UNESCO’s collective knowledge and common heritage of mankind in the age of Generative AI. Before enrolling in the doctoral program at Warwick, she studied politics at the University of Edinburgh for her BA and obtained an MA with Distinction in International Cultural Policy and Management from the University of Warwick. In addition, she worked at the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO. In this conversation, Sun Park discusses both how AI can be used by UNESCO as a tool to carry out its work, especially in the context of preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage efforts.
Main Topics: UNESCO, Generative AI, AI Ethics, Art, Aesthetics
Links:
• Academic page: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/park/.
Papers and Book Chapters:
• Park, Sun. 2023. “The Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Practical and Ethical Issues.” UNESCO ICHCAP ICH Courier 55: 16-17.
• Park, Sun. 2022. “The Ambivalence in the Ambiguity of UNESCO’s Cultural Policy Remit: a Structural Description of the Common Heritage of Mankind in the Cultural Diversity Convention.” International Journal of Cultural Policy. 29 (6): 701–715.
• Bell, David and Kate Oakley. 2014. Cultural Policy. Routledge. Translated from English to Korean by D.J. Jo and Sun Park, 2022. Myung-In Publishers.
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunpark1221/.
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