Keynote – Intuition, Habit, and AI
Carolyn Pedwell gave a keynote at the Annual Critical Theory Seminar at the University of Parma, Italy
Held between 11-12th October 2024, the two-day seminar, ‘Trasformazioni’, explored digital habits and the politics of transformation among other interdisciplinary themes.
Asking how, and with what implications, intuition became algorithmic, Carolyn’s talk, ‘Intuition, Habit, and AI’, examined the twentieth century pre-history of “artificial intuition” – with a focus on shifting transatlantic human-machine relations and habits across philosophy, management studies, psychology, mathematics, and cognitive science from the 1930s-1980s. It addressed some of the continuing sensorial, socio-political, and ethical implications of post-war efforts to make intuition a quantifiable form of anticipatory knowledge and decision-making.
