The Bloomington Symposium: Intelligence is aimed at fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration on the concept of intelligence and intelligences, broadly interpreted across disciplines.
Recent discourse has brought to light important questions about how we define, measure, model, automate, represent, and value intelligence in contemporary society. Breakthroughs in various fields have prompted renewed consideration of what constitutes intelligence. This symposium provides a timely opportunity to bring together experts from diverse fields to explore philosophical, ethical, cultural, and conceptual perspectives. "Intelligence” has become a keyword across many fields and industries - embedded in terms such as systems intelligence, artificial intelligence, ecological intelligence, emotional intelligence, and social intelligence – but it is also linked to broader ideas about smartness, creativity, ways of knowing, embodiment, and wisdom. The symposium will expand theoretical frameworks beyond siloed disciplines and take a generous understanding of what intelligence means. The interdisciplinary examination from this symposium seeks to inform a conceptual framework that interrogates the concept of intelligence and its applications, particularly in the wake of AI developments and associated technologies.
This year's workshop group is co-convened by:
David Crandall, Professor of Computer Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Rachel Plotnick, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, The Media School
Caleb Weintraub, Associate Professor in Studio Art, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design
One external fellow is joining us this year during the November symposium.
Melanie Mitchell, Davis Professor of Complexity, Santa Fe Institute