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Session
Exploring Critical Issues in AI with the AI Agnostics Reading Group
Time:
Friday, 12/Dec/2025:
10:00am - 11:30am

Virtual location: Virtual


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Exploring Critical Issues in AI with the AI Agnostics Reading Group

A. Hands1, L. Gray2, H. Julien1, G. Marchionini3, M. Posner4, V. Van Hyning5

1University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA; 2Syracuse University, USA; 3University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; 4University of California, Los Angeles, USA; 5University of Maryland, USA

This alternative event is the inaugural convening of the AI Agnostics reading group. Using recently published texts from interdisciplinary fields, six participants will engage conference attendees in a rousing discussion of critical issues in artificial intelligence. Together, the reading group and conference attendees will unpack, reflect on, and wrestle with the myriad domains in which our lives are affected by AI and related ethical issues, policy concerns, and agency in use of non-use of AI in research and teaching. Using literature as a springboard, we will consider the costs of uncritical acceptance of artificial intelligence. We will gain insights into what information science scholars and practitioners can do to respond to the current moment for the good of society.