Astronomy Colloquium - 'Astrophysicists and AI Worries'

Abstract: Astrophysicists increasingly are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents for a variety of tasks. However, their adoption of AI is subject to ethical and environmental debates. This is an update of IAS Fellow, Dr Jarita Holbrook’s, ongoing qualitative study of how astrophysicists are engaging with AI and machine learning. She will show a film on the topic that is under construction.

The Wednesday Astronomy Colloquium is open to all interested members of the University, and we encourage all members of the astronomy community to attend. The colloquia are generally aimed at the level of an astronomy PhD student, and are intended to be accessible for an audience of both observational and computational astronomers. This talk series is currently organised by Sownak Bose, Leah Morabito, Jess Doppel and Matthew Temple.