Beyond Evil Algorithms – Terminkalender

Collective Reflections on AI, Art & Culture
Workshop Series Semmelweisklinik

A six-part workshop series exploring the intersection of creativity and AI through a critical and interdisciplinary lens. It fosters dialogue between artists and scientists, encouraging reflection on the role of AI in the arts.

The workshops offer technical skills, creative tools and theoretical input, empowering participants to shape and question how AI is used in artistic practice.
Open to all, regardless of background or prior experience.

While the series is best experienced as a whole—especially the introductory session—individual modules can also be attended separately.

All workshops will be held in English.

If you’d like to participate but are not comfortable with English, we might be able to offer language support (e.g. in German or Spanish). Let us know which languages you speak and we’ll do our best to accommodate!

Limited number of participants
Free of charge – Donations welcome and go directly to the Semmelweisklinik Association

Supported by the BMWKMS – Bundesministerium

Any more questions? Drop us a mail: info@semmelweisklinik.at

Curated by Joanna Zabielska
Concept & Organization by Frederik Marroquín

Beyond Evil Algorithms. An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Workshop 1 with Paola Lopez

What is AI – and what is it not? This workshop provides an accessible, easy-to-understand introduction to Artificial Intelligence for everyone who is interested, but does not know where to start.

In the workshop, we will dive into the differences between the concepts: algorithms, AI systems, data-driven systems, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Generative AI. Then, as AI systems are data-based, we will take a closer look at data as a phenomenon. Further, we will explore what is “new” about AI, and what has been there for a very long time. Although everyone talks about “the” artificial intelligence, there are two fundamentally different types of AI. Each type brings its own characteristic risks: Taking up this facet as well, we differentiate between individual risks on a smaller scale and systemic risks on a larger scale. After diving into the basics of AI systems – and what it takes to produce them – workshop participants will be able to build their own forms of critique, navigate the current discourse and look beyond the hype.

Paola Lopez is a mathematician. In her interdisciplinary PhD thesis, she examines social implications of AI systems, questions of (in)justice, bias, and institutional power. Her publications include work on the Austrian “AMS algorithm”. She is a researcher at the Computer Science Department at the University of Bremen and an associate researcher in the research group “Technology, Power and Domination” at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. She enjoys teaching, e.g., at the University of Basel and at the Akademie der bildenden Künste. She writes the “KI-Kolumne” for the German magazine Merkur.