Professor Isabel Millar, PhD

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This seminar will provide an introduction to the ‘Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence’. Highlighting some of the key psychoanalytic concepts at stake and articulating their relationship to a more critical approach to intelligence, the body, thought and their simulation. We will interrogate the Lacanian notion of sexuation in relation to the idea of the ‘Singularity’ and the concept of enjoyment as a factor in the creation of AI. The seminar will approach the psychoanalytic challenges of AI in the shape of Kant’s four questions; What can we know? What should we do? What may we hope for? and What is man?

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