Who's Caring? Robots, AI and the Art of Being Together

Experts in robotics, AI, design, law and ethics examine how intelligent machines reshape connection and how we remain present together.
About this Event

We're handing more of our care, companionship and decisions to artificial and embodied agents. More and more artificial presences are "with us", finding form as robots that share our spaces, gesture, respond and touch. They will sit with us while we work, at home, and alongside our loved ones. AI listens when no one else will; robots keep company where no one else can; systems suggest and quietly shape what we buy, watch and believe. Agents act as our proxies, extensions of ourselves, increasingly with bodies of their own. They absorb and reflect all that we are, our virtues and our delusions.
As technology and innovation move forward in a churning more-than-human soup stirred by many cooks, some striving for unlimited productivity, others urging us to slow down, how do we keep our agency in a world of artificial agents? How do we navigate who is controlling whom? How do we stay attuned and present together?
Amidst the polycrisis, this panel brings together experts in robotics, law, ethics and curatorial practice to discuss ethics and responsibility in human-machine interaction, exploring opportunities for innovation that embodies care and imagination around the art of being together.

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Event Partner:
Science Gallery Melbourne and School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS)
The University of Melbourne