MORAL MACHINES?ETHICS AND POLITICS OF THE DIGITAL WORLD ______________________________________________________________

Wednesday, 6 March 20199.00 OPENING WORDS (Think Corner, Stage)

9.15–10.15 KEYNOTE I: N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University, USA), “Cognitive Assemblages and Their Implications for Ethics” (Think Corner, Stage) Chair: Hanna-Riikka Roine (HCAS)

11.00–12.30 MORNING SESSIONS 

Session 1: Moral Machines in Literature and Media (HCAS common room)Chair: Esko Suoranta (University of Helsinki)• Matti Kangaskoski (University of Helsinki): “The Logic of Selection — Values, Opinions, Ethics and

Politics on Contemporary Digital Interfaces”• Teemu Korpijärvi (the University of Greifswald in Germany and University of Eastern Finland):

“Imagining Machine Morals: Predictions on machine morality in science fiction”• Maude Riverin (University of Quebec in Montreal): “Women Fighting Back: Resisting Dystopia in

Battledream Chronicle’s Techno-Colonial Universe”

Session 2: What Do Algorithms Make of Us? (Think Corner, Think Lounge) Chair: Marco Piasentier (University of Jyväskylä)• Susanna Lindberg (HCAS): “Just Machines”• Jill Walker Rettberg (University of Bergen): “Machine Vision: Selfie Filters and Image Recognition

Algorithms as Cognitive Technical Systems”• Mika Elo (University of Arts Helsinki): “Tagshot”

13.30–14.30 KEYNOTE II: Maria Mäkelä (Tampere University): “Social Media as Moralistic Storytelling Machine: Emergent Authority and the Viral Exemplum” (HCAS common room) Chair: Hanna-Riikka Roine (HCAS)

15.00–17.00 AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Session 3: Machines as Artists (Think Corner, Think Lounge)Chair: Riku Roihankorpi (Tampere University)• Mariana Chinellato Ferreira (University of Coimbra): “Creativity in Computer-Generated Narratives”• Meri Kytö (Tampere University): “A listening machine: Sensory agency and the digitalization of the

sonic environment”• Cecilia Magalhaes (University of Coimbra): “Automatic and creative: playing with algorithms and

fragments in the Book of Disquiet Archive”• Irene Alcubilla Troughton (University of Utrecht): “Moving Failures: A Tentative Approach to Human-

Robot Interaction on Stage”

Session 4: Manipulation in Web Search and Social Media (HCAS common room)Chair: Jarkko Toikkanen (Tampere University)• Joshua Adams (Salem State University): “Thinking of Google Search as Digital Colonialism”• Juho Pääkkönen (University of Helsinki & Aalto University), Salla-Maaria Laaksonen & Mikko Jauho

(University of Helsinki, Centre for Consumer Society Research): “Expectations on Automated Future in Social Media Analysis”

• Hanna-Riikka Roine (HCAS) & Laura Piippo (University of Jyväskylä): “Authorship vs. Assemblage in Computational Media”

• Esko Suoranta (University of Helsinki): “Schizoid Nondroids: Fictions of the Everted Cyberspace”

18.15–20.00 ARTISTIC PROGRAMME (Think Corner, Stage)

Thursday, 7 March 20199.15–10.15 KEYNOTE III: Bernard Stiegler (University of Compiègne, France): “The Machines of the Technosphere. The role of morality in the biosphere according Arnold Toynbee in 1971 and the New Genealogy of Morals” (Think Corner, Stage) Chair: Susanna Lindberg (HCAS)

11.00–13.00 MORNING SESSIONS 

Session 5: Ethical and Political Problems with Machines (HCAS common room)Chair: Visa Kurki (HCAS)• Marc-Antoine Pencolé (Paris Nanterre University): “Automation, between factuality and normativity”• Arto Laitinen (Tampere University): “Can machines think? Disambiguating the double talk”• Marko Ahteensuu (Tampere University), Mireille Musangamfura, Laura Puumala & Helena Siipi

(University of Turku): “Applying Principalism to Military Ethics for Human Soldiers and Combat Robots”• Michael Smith (Purdue University): “A Conversation between objects: The Ethical Underpinnings of

the IoT”

Session 6: Digital Control of Life and Strategies of Resistance 1/2 (Think Corner, Think Lounge)Chair: Karoliina Snell (HCAS)• Harley Bergroth (University of Turku): “Dis/assembling Self-knowledge and Temporalizing the Self in

Self-tracking Practice”• Jesse Haapoja (Aalto University) & Airi Lampinen (Stockholm University): “What we hide, what we

reveal: Expression games with algorithmic systems”• Linda Turunen (University of Helsinki): “Delegated moderation work: humans and machines in content

moderation”• Jared M. Wright (Purdue University): “’The Future of the Internet Hangs in the Balance’: The

Perception and Framing of Political Opportunity and Threat among Activists in Digital Space”

14.00–15.00 KEYNOTE IV: Frédéric Neyrat (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA): “The Zombies of the Digital: What Justice Should We Wait For?” (HCAS common room) Chair: Susanna Lindberg (HCAS)

15.30–17.30 AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Session 7: Digital Control of Life and Strategies of Resistance 2/2 (Think Corner, Think Lounge)Chair: Arto Laitinen (Tampere University)• Viivi Lähteenoja (University of Helsinki): “Towards an Ethics of Personal Data: A Question of Trust”• Karoliina Snell (HCAS): “Controlling and contextualising digital health data: public perceptions on

morality of health data use”• Maiju Tanninen, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen (Tampere University) & Minna Ruckenstein (HELDIG,

Consumer Society Research Centre): “Distributed autonomy: smart insurance as a technological imaginary”

• Yael Eylat Van-Essen (Holon Institute of Technology): “‘Going Smart’: The Politics and Ethics of Resilient Smart Machines”

Session 8: Thinking and Computing (HCAS common room)Chair: Harley Bergroth (University of Turku)• Anne Alombert (Université Paris Nanterre): “What should we call ‘thinking’ at the time of ‘artificial

intelligence’ and ‘moral machines’?”• Igors Gubenko (University of Latvia): “Supplementing humanity: technological desire at work in

deconstruction”• Anna Longo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne): “Computation and historicity: The

Unpredictability of Knowledge”

Friday, 8 March 20199.30–10.30 KEYNOTE V: Erich Hörl (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany): “Environmentalitarian Time: Temporality and Responsibility under the Technoecological Condition” (HCAS common room) Chair: Mika Elo (University of Arts Helsinki)

11.00–13.00 MORNING SESSIONS

Session 9: Geopolitics and Technology of Space (HCAS common room)Chair: Tuomas Forsberg (HCAS)• Tuukka Lehtiniemi (Aalto University): “’Can Moomin Valley challenge Silicon Valley?’ – Exploring

Alternative Social Imaginaries of Data Activism”• James Mittelman (American University in Washington): “Responding to Ethical Challenges in a Digital

World”• Mariëlle Wijermars (Aleksanteri Institute): “Affective Framing and the Legitimation of Internet Control in

Russia”

Session 10: Ethical Machines and Machine Ethics (Think Corner, Think Lounge)Chair: Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen (Tampere University)• Paul Firenze (Wentworth Institute of Technology): “Social Values and Crowdsourcing Ethics in MIT’s

‘Moral Machine’”• Michael Laakasuo (University of Helsinki): “Nursing Robots and Human Moral Psychology”• Vivek Nallur (University College Dublin): “Landscape of Machine ethics Implementation”• Jenny Ingermarsdotter & Alexandra Lindmark (Swedish Defence Research Agency): “States and the

State of AI – Why Policy Matters (or What Renaissance Teachers Already Knew)”

14.00–15.00 KEYNOTE VI: François-David Sebbah (Paris Nanterre University, France): “The Two Lights of Morality and Machines” (HCAS common room) Chair: Igors Gubenko (University of Latvia)

15.30–17.30 AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Session 11: Personhood in the Digital World (Think Corner, Think Lounge)Chair: Susanna Lindberg (HCAS)• Visa Kurki (HCAS): “AIs as Legal Persons: Three Discussions”• Jenni Partanen & Seija Ridell (Tampere University): “Planning for Netborgs: Urban Complexity

remediated”• Natalia Starostina (Young Harris College/The University of West Georgia): “Machine Learning, Digital

Technologies and Discourses on Citizenship for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Others with Exceptionalities.”

Session 12: Thinking Challenges in the Digital World (HCAS common room)Chair: Galit Wellner (NB School of Design Haifa)• Galit Wellner: “From Thinking to Imagining”• Lars Botin (Aalborg University): “Thinking Things and Thinging Thoughts”• Yoni Van Den Eede (Free University of Brussels): “Talking versus Doing: Thinking ‘Making’ in the

Digital World”• Lyat Friedman (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design): “Thinking and Criticizing”

17.45 CLOSING WORDS (HCAS common room)____________________________________________________________________________________

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