Wykład pt. World on Auto-Pilot: The Social Theory of Automation – prof. Anthony Elliott

Drugie seminarium z cyklu „Teoria społeczna a wyzwania współczesności”
organizowane przez Zakład Socjologii Teoretycznej IFiS PAN we współpracy z Sekcją Socjologii Cyfrowej PTS
odbędzie się w formie hybrydowej:
w Pałacu Staszica, Nowy Świat 72, Sala 268 (2. piętro), Warszawa
oraz online na platformie Zoom
dnia 26 marca 2026 o godzinie 15:00 (CET).
Wykład pt. World on Auto-Pilot: The Social Theory of Automation
wygłosi prof. Anthony Elliott z University of Adelaide

Abstrakt wystąpienia: Automation in the age of industrial modernity was rooted in heavy machinery, mass-production manufacturing and standardized, mechanized assembly-lines. Automation in our time has gone both digital and algorithmic. In the new streamlined, made-over, computationally predictive brand of automation we witness the metamorphosis of the world rewritten in terms of apps, algorithms and artificial intelligence. Arguably this historical shift from industrial automation to postindustrial automation amounts to the greatest period of technological innovation ever in human history in terms of transformations across economy, society and identities. Digital automation should be seen, however, as the increasingly complex integration of emerging technologies, transformed social relations, as well as the emotional and perceptual shifts wrought by automated human-machine interaction. In this lecture, Anthony Elliott introduces and outlines the concept of automization for the critical analysis of self and society. The argument is developed that, in the passage from ‘industrial society’ to the ‘algorithmic society’ stage of modernity, the logic of automization is gradually supplemented through metrics, quantification and predictive analytics on the one side, and on the other side accelerated through emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, augmented and virtual realities. It is concluded that one of the prime tasks of sociology today must be to track these implications and relate them to the core concerns of the discipline.

Anthony Elliott is Bradley Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Adelaide University, where he is Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Digital Transformations. He holds visiting professorships in Japan and Ireland and is a Fellow of many prestigious academic societies. An internationally acclaimed author, Elliott has written over fifty books translated into 17 languages, including ‘The Culture of AI’, ‘Making Sense of AI’, ‘Algorithmic Intimacy’, and ‘Algorithms of Anxiety’. His new book ‘Automated Lives’ will be published by Polity Press in 2026. He was appointed Member of the Order of Australia for his contributions to education and social science research in the King’s Birthday Honours in 2023.

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