[csaa-forum] Michael Daubs: 'Myths, Imaginaries and AI Regulation' 26/08 10am NZT / 8am AEST on ZOOM

[Rosemary Overell]

Kia ora koutou,

As part of the MFCO Seminar Series 2025, we are glad to be welcoming our very own Dr Michael Daubs<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/michael-daubs> on Tuesday 26th August at 10am (8am AEST; find your local time here<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20250415T030000&p1=952&p2=37&p3=152&p4=137&p5=179>) to present on ‘Myths, Imaginaries and AIA Regulation’.
Come join us in Quad 1 or via Zoom link Please register here<https://forms.gle/fm1Vzyj2aQv5BUMF9> for the zoom link.

Myths, Imaginaries and AI Regulation
Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, concerns about the spread of disinformation and biases by artificial intelligence (AI), and a conflicting belief that AI can drive efficiency, productivity and innovation, have led to some international efforts to both regulate and encourage adoption of AI. This presentation discusses these two competing visions, or what Mosco (2004) calls ‘myths’ and Jasanoff and Kim (2019) call ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’. It argues that these imaginaries fuel regulatory approaches to AI, the consequences of which will only be evident once AI sheds the mythic sublime and becomes and enters what Mosco calls “the prosaic world of banality”. Ultimately, while the media of the future might be determined by technological innovation, the future of the media will be influenced by these regulations and what they restrict and enable.

Michael S. Daubs is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago and a co-director for Kōtaha—the Internet, Social Media and Politics Research Lab at Victoria University of Wellington. His latest research examines the spread of misinformation and extremist ideologies through online communities.

All welcome!


Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Pūkenga Matua | Senior Lecturer
Pāpāho, Whitiāhua, Pārokoroko | Media, Film & Communication Programme
Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | The University of Otago
Otepoti | Dunedin
Aotearoa New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Overell, R. (2024). ‘Don’t Worry Darling: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2025). ‘On her new album, Lorde creates pop at its purest – performative, playful and alive to paradox’<https://theconversation.com/on-her-new-album-lorde-creates-pop-at-its-purest-performative-playful-and-alive-to-paradox-259994>. The Conversation. 30th June.

Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en>
LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222>


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