Stephanie Dick
Assistant Professor
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
October 28–30 · Vancouver
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Stephanie Dick, assistant professor in SFU’s School of Communication. She brings the long view on AI: where our ideas about machine intelligence came from, who gets to define knowledge, and what those histories still do to work and public life.
The long history under the word intelligence, and a clearer view of who got to decide what counts as knowledge and what that still does to your work.
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Who got to decide what counts as knowledge
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How AI Sets Limits for Human Aspiration
Written with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Matt Canute: the AI progress story hides a shrinking definition of what counts as intelligence.
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Abstractions and Embodiments
The anthology she co-edited with Janet Abbate on how computing has served liberation and control, often at the same time.
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Recognition
Her comic in progress with artist Bren Perez: humans long extinct, the machines still running, one man brought back by a misrecognition.
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About Stephanie Dick
Stephanie Dick is a historian of science and technology and an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She traces the history of mathematics, computing, AI, and automation, and how technologies encode ideas about intelligence, expertise, and human value. She treats history as a tool for the present and brings it to unions, policymakers, and professional leaders facing how AI is reshaping work, creativity, and learning. She wrote Making Up Minds: Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, and co-edited Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society. She has spoken from Prada Mode to the CBC, and has written pysanky, Ukrainian wax-resist eggs, since she was eight.
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- Thursday · October 294:05–4:25 PM
Who got to decide what counts as knowledge
Stephanie on the long history of where our ideas about machine intelligence came from, and who got to decide what counts as knowledge.
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Q&A
A filmmaker and a historian, then both on stage for questions.
On stage with Brett Gaylor.
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Times are Vancouver time and can still move. See the full program