The Future of Human Attention: AI, Ubuntu and Relational Justice
| When: | Wednesday, 16 September 2026 - Wednesday, 16 September 2026 |
| Where: | Hybrid Event Braamfontein Campus East GH005,Ground Floor, Gate House |
| Start time: | 13:00 |
| Enquiries: | info@mind.wits.ac.za |
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MIND Seminar with Prof. Rennie Naidoo - The Future of Human Attention: AI, Ubuntu and Relational Justice
Generative artificial intelligence is no longer experienced only as a tool. Increasingly, AI systems speak, advise, tutor, comfort and respond in ways that resemble human conversation. This raises urgent ethical questions for societies shaped by deep inequality and by relational traditions such as ubuntu.
This MIND seminar examines what happens when machines begin to occupy spaces once reserved for human recognition, care and accountability. Drawing on Ubuntu as a relational moral framework, Prof Rennie Naidoo will explore whether generative AI strengthens or weakens the conditions for shared life. The seminar will consider the risk of “relational apartheid”, a future in which privileged groups retain access to human attention, while marginalised communities are increasingly routed to automated systems. The seminar asks a central question: How should AI be designed, governed and deployed so that it augments human relationships rather than displaces them?
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