Artificial Intelligence: From Historiographical Contextualization to Current Socio-Technical Questions

Telis Tympas, Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS/NKUA), holds degrees in Chemical Engineering (MSc, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1989), Science and Technology Policy (MSc, Georgia Tech, 1995), and the History and Sociology of Technology (PhD, Georgia Tech, 2001).

He serves as the Director of the English-language Master’s program “Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies” (a collaboration between the Department of HPS and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications) and is the Vice-President for Research of the European Inter-University Association on Society, Science and Technology (ESST). His research has been supported by prestigious fellowships (NSF, IEEE History Center, Smithsonian, Hagley, Chemical Heritage Foundation) and collaborative grants (ESF, EU FP7, EU Horizon 2020, EU Creative Europe, Erasmus+, COST).

This talk draws upon the history of Artificial Intelligence to contextualize pressing issues within the current landscape. Key topics include: