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SUMMARY:Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) "From Recognition 
 to Misrecognition: Indigeneity\, the AI Dialectic and the Anthropomorphi
 c Temptation"
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: What happens when a social anthropologist conducts 
 a sustained dialectical exchange with an AI system on a topic he knows i
 ntimately through decades of ethnographic fieldwork? This paper presents
  an experiment in which I repeatedly challenge my AI interlocutor\, Mirr
 or-Mirror\, to explain and justify its representations of Emberá indigen
 eity in Panama. Some of its responses proved unexpectedly sophisticated\
 , frequently resembling contemporary anthropological reasoning\, rather 
 than reproducing static or essentialised representations of indigenous p
 eoples (as I initially expected). Instead of accepting these responses a
 t face value\, I repeatedly interrupted the ‘machine’ by demanding preci
 se scholarly attribution\, conceptual genealogy\, and ethnographic speci
 ficity. As the dialectic unfolded\, what initially appeared as the machi
 ne’s capacity for providing original insights\, increasingly dissolved i
 nto recombinations of existing anthropological knowledge. Thus\, the exp
 eriment ultimately revealed less about artificial intelligence than abou
 t anthropology itself. I argue that the principal analytical challenge i
 s not whether AI can think—machines don’t think—but why human interlocut
 ors so readily recognise understanding\, judgement\, and originality in 
 patterned computational responsiveness. The chapter traces a movement fr
 om recognition to misrecognition\, showing how sustained dialectical eng
 agement with machine intelligence gradually exposes a series of anthropo
 morphic traps embedded within our anthropological interpretive habits. R
 ather than treating AI as an autonomous thinking subject\, I suggest tha
 t the challenge posed by AI offers anthropology a uniquely productive op
 portunity to examine its own practices of interpretation and conditions 
 of scholarly recognition\, precisely because the machine mirrors back to
  us the disciplinary habits through which anthropological knowledge is p
 roduced and recognised.\n\n\nDimitrios Theodossopoulos is Emeritus Profe
 ssor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent\n
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LOCATION:Boardroom\, 2nd floor\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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