Retro AI Symposium

Event details Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026 Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Location: Mudd Hall (MHP) - 102 - 3709 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Cost: Free Type: Conference/Symposia Campus: University Park Campus Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been obsessively focussed on the next big breakthrough which would solve its defining problems. While interventions like critical AI studies are at least starting to ask the right questions of this field, their fixation on the latest innovation often misses the critical histories and genealogies of AI's past. You are invited to a two-day symposium on Retro AI at the University of Southern California (USC) to critically consider these questions and their implications for today. July 31-Aug 1 Sponsored by the Institute on Ethics & Trust in Computing, The Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab, and the Electronic Literature Organization Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/retro-ai-symposium