Conference: Artificial Intelligence and

Social Sciences April 12 and 13, 2019 Shanghai University

Conference Program Place: Lehu Hotel, Boashan Campus,

Shanghai University, CHINA. Date: April 12 – 13, 2019

RSVP is required: tugrulkeskin@t.shu.edu.cn Tel: 15000465734

Friday APRIL 12, 2019

OPENING REMARKS BY PROFESSOR GOU CHANGGANG, SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY, CHINA

8:15 – 8:30

PANEL -1: Artificial Intelligence, Society and Politics 8:30 – 10:00 Chair: Tugrul Keskin, Shanghai University, China.

1. Philosophy of AI - Qingfeng Yang, Shanghai University, China 2. Fembot Hegemony. The Female Body In A Post-Human And Post-Western World - Mirjam

Gruber, Center for Advanced Studies, Italy. 3. Political Economy of Robots - Ryan Kiggins, Central Oklahoma University, USA. 4. Artificial Intelligence and the Future Balance of Power - Anupama Vijayakumar, Manipal Academy

of Higher Education, Manipal University, India.

COFFEE BREAK – 10:00 - 10:30

PANEL – 2: Artificial Intelligence and Theory 10:30 – 12:00 Chair: Qingfeng Yang, Shanghai University, China.

1. Artificial Intelligence: A Critique of Ellul’s Theory of Technique - Andrew Alexander, Shanghai University, China.

2. Genealogy of Thought and Pleasure: Baudrillardian Philosophical Perception of Artificial Intelligence - Junfu Wong, University of Cambridge, UK.

3. Rise of the Centaurs: Intelligence Augmentation and the Internet of Things - Leslie Paul Thiele, University of Florida, USA.

4. Security Challenges for Artificial Intelligence - Nitin Agarwala, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, India.

PANEL – 3: Artificial Intelligence and China 10:30 – 12:00 Chair: Timothy Shaw University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA.

1. The Changing Face of Work: China and Automation - Elizabeth Shen, Kairos Future https://www.kairosfuture.com/

2. An Analysis of AI Strategy from Canada and China - David Perez-Des Rosiers, Shanghai University, China.

3. Artificial Intelligence, Socialism and China - Yang Chen, Shanghai University, China. 4. Artificial Intelligence: An Opportunity for China and India to Establish a New Social Order

Around the World - Mohit Nayal, Indian Army, National Maritime Foundation, India.

LUNCH – 12:00 – 13:30

Friday APRIL 12, 2019

PANEL – 4: Artificial Intelligence and Society 13:30 – 15:00 Chair: Leslie Paul Thiele, University of Florida, USA.

1. Artificial Intelligence and Public Education - Kenneth Rogerson, Duke University, USA. 2. On the Responsibility of artificial intelligence - Dai Yibin, Shanghai University, China. 3. Artificial Intelligence Impacts on Society - Seema Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,

India. 4. What will it mean to be a human being in AI future? - PARAMJEET SINGH BERWAL Lecturer,

Ivane Javakishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. PANEL -5: Comparative Politics of Artificial Intelligence 13:30 – 15:00 Chair: Junfu Wong, University of Cambridge, UK.

1. AI & IR in Africa: drivers of sustainable development? - Timothy Shaw University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA.

2. What is the state of AI development in Russia? - Samuel Bendett, Russian Studies Program, CNA Corporation; Member, CNA’s Center for Autonomy and AI. Fellow in Russia Studies, American Foreign Policy Council, USA.

3. Artificial Intelligence and Latin America: Emerging Patterns of Relations with Foreign AI TNCs - Vila Seoane and Maximiliano Facundo, National University of San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina.

4. Artificial Intelligence and European Politics: Legal and Institutional Questions - Roland Benedikter, Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

COFFEE BREAK – 10:00 - 10:30 PANEL -6: Artificial Intelligence: Surveillance and City 15:30 – 17:00 Chair: Ryan Kiggins, Central Oklahoma University, USA.

1. A Sociological Approach to Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Surveillance for Public Security - David Perez-Des Rosiers, Shanghai University, China. d

2. Surveillance in Smart Cities: Interrogating ‘Smart City’ in light of ICT induced spatial reconfigurations of governance in Shanghai and Mexico City - Thomas P. Narins, University at Albany-SUNY, USA.

3. Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Threat of Democratized Artificial Intelligence - Ori Swed Texas Tech University Kerry Chavez Texas Tech University, USA.

4. Countering Terrorism in the Cities and Artificial Intelligence - Askin İnci Sökmen İstanbul Arel University, Istanbul, Turkey

Friday APRIL 12, 2019

PANEL – 7: Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy 15:30 – 17:00 Chair: Kenneth Rogerson, Duke University, USA.

1. Remaking Soft Power with AI - Stephen Keck, Emirates Diplomatic Academy, UAE. 2. Effect of Artificial Intelligence on International Relations and Foreign Policy - Nitin Agarwala,

National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, India. 3. Comparison of national Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategic Policies and Priorities - Sdenka

Zobeida SALAS-PILCO, The University of Hong Kong, China. 4. AI, Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Data Processing: A Review - Sabith Khan, California

Lutheran University, USA.

DINNER – 18:00 – 20:00

For more information and RSVP, please contact:

Tugrul Keskin, Shanghai University, China. tugrulkeskin@t.shu.edu.cn Ryan Kiggins, Central Oklahoma University, USA. rkiggins@uco.edu

Yang Chen, Shanghai University, China. ycwf2008@163.com Qingfeng Yang, Shanghai University, China yangqingfeng1974@126.com

Saturday APRIL 13, 2019

PANEL – 8: Artificial Intelligence: Religion and Climate Change 9:30 – 11:00 Chair: Yang Chen, Shanghai University, China.

1. AI and Islam: How a Self-Driving Car Undermines the Concept of Qadar - Miras Tolepbergen, Graduate student in International Relations and Diplomacy; Shanghai University, China.

2. Islamic and Confucius Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence - Fida Ur Rahman Ghulam Fatima Tuz Zahra University College of Zhob, BUITEMS, Pakistan.

3. Artificial Intelligence and Changing Face of Islamic Practices - Prem Anand Mishra, · Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

4. Artificial Intelligence and Human Agency: Politics of Technology and Climate Change - Devendra Kumar, PhD Candidate, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

PANEL -9: Artificial Intelligence and Security 9:30 – 11:00 Chair: Rajiv Ranjan, Shanghai University, China.

1. AI, Security and Pakistan - Saadat Hassan Bilal, Quaid-i-Azam university, Islamabad Pakistan. 2. Artificial Intelligence: The Prospects of 4th and 5th Generation Warfare - Shaza Arif, Fatima

Jinnah Women University, Pakistan. 3. Artificial Intelligence and International Security – Nitin Agarwala, National Maritime Foundation,

New Delhi, India. 4. Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Weapons - Syed Sadam Hussain Shah, Center for International

Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan.

PANEL - 10: Closing Remarks and Discussions: Future Academic Cooperation, Conferences and Establishing a new journal on Technology in Modern Society

and Politics.

11:30 – 12:00