Round table on will take place in X-Center in Nova Gorica, starting at 18h on Tuesday, October 20th.
AI and the future of academia
AI is rapidly changing the way research is conducted, how academic skills are taught and how careers are rewarded. This panel asks what shape is academic research and teaching taking in the age of AI: What does it mean to do research -and to undertake training as a student- when allegedly super-human knowledge is all the time at your fingertips?
Panelists
- Camille Howson - Professor of Higher Education at Imperial College London, expert in higher education research with a focus on student engagement; student outcomes and learning gain; equality and social justice; and quality, performance and accountability
- Jana Javornik - SMASH Ethics Adviser and a founding member of UNESCO’s Women for Ethics of AI. Slovene-British-Swedish scholar, Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, and a former Director-General of Higher Education. Researches public policy, social and workplace sustainability, EDI, AI ethics, comparative methodology, and knowledge translation.
- Matjaž Ličer - researcher at the Environment Agency of Republic of Slovenia, expert in oceanography, pollutants and machine learning applications to studies of extreme weather events.
Moderator: Roberto Trotta, cosmologist and Head of the Theoretical and Scientific Data Science group at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, where he also serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory. He is the author of several popular science books and a prominent voice in the astroparticle physics community, known for critically examining the role and impact of AI in scientific research.
Round table will end at 19h with a discussion and aperitif.
Participant who need to reach Ljubljana will be able to catch the last bus leaving at 19.30, short distance from X-center. A bus transport from/to Lanthieri mansion in Vipava will be organized for workshop participants before and after the event.