Speaker: Associate Professor, Lina Rahm

Chair: Professor Jen Ross

Venue (online):

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Presentation Title: What is the Problem with Problems? An Investigation of Knowledge and Power in the Company of Evil AI, Failed Robots, and the Computer System Gustav

Abstract

This presentation explores what happened when I, together with students, designed fictional technologies to solve all the problems in schools. It also discusses a robot that was hired as a reading dog in a library and, finally, what happened when the computer system Gustav became intelligent. What these examples have in common is that they represent technical solutions to urgent societal problems. But perhaps, above all, this presentation is about what critical EdTech research and research in digital education can contribute when we try to understand and solve wicked societal problems.

Biography

Lina Rahm is associate professor of media and environmental history with a specialisation in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden. Her research is focused on the overlap between education and AI politics, with a special interest in ecotechnological imaginaries and problematisations.

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