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SUMMARY:'Responsible AI Futures' Hybrid Seminar Series - Dr Elinor Carmi
DESCRIPTION:A Feminist Critique to Digital and AI Consent\nThis talk presents a feminist critique to digital and AI consent and argues that the current system is flawed. The online surveillance adtech industry that funds the web had to use a mechanism that commodifies people\, rendering their behaviors into data – products that can be sold and traded for the highest bidder. In this way\, digital consent serves as an authorizing and legalizing instrument to the business model of spying\, selling and trading people in the online ecosystem. This then helps to fuel the AI industry that uses these data as training data for the generation of text\, image and video. Using four key feminist approaches – process\, embodiment\, network and context – this talk argues that digital consent is a mechanism that transfers responsibility to people and enables exploitative-extractivist markets to exist. Consequently\, the broader educational effects of digital consent produces people as products with narrow agency and understanding. \n\n\n\n\nBio\nDr Elinor Carmi is a Senior Lecturer in Data Justice and Social Justice at the Sociology & Criminology Department at City University\, London\, UK. Dr Carmi is a digital rights advocate\, feminist\, researcher and journalist who has been working\, writing and teaching on data politics\, data literacies\, feminist approaches to media and data\, data justice and internet governance. Currently Dr Carmi works on the Nuffield Foundation project “Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard”. Dr Carmi’s work contributes to emerging debates in academia\, policy\, health organisations and digital activism. She was a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK’s Digital\, Culture\, Media & Sport Committee\, as well as gave evidence on Digital Literacy for the House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. In 2020\, Dr Carmi was invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an expert on data literacy and disinformation to the first scientific discussion on infodemiology. \nX – @Elinor_Carmi; \nMastodon – @drPinkeee@assemblag.es \nBluesky -@elinorcarmi.bsky.social \nWatch the recording now:
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/braid-x-idi-hybrid-seminar-dr-elinor-carmi
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:'Responsible AI Futures' Hybrid Seminar Series - Dr Bronwyn Jones
DESCRIPTION:What’s new in news? How AI is impacting journalism\nThe use of AI systems in newsrooms and across society is shifting the terrain in which journalism operates and changing what it means to make and consume news. We’re recommended personalised articles based on datafied readings of our behaviour\, while our clicks drive analytics that shape editorial decisions about what to report. Deepfakes and mis- and dis-information creep into our social news feeds and pose increasingly intractable verification challenges for journalists. From monitoring online sources\, to transcribing interviews and processing data for investigations\, AI-driven automation of rote tasks has become commonplace. However as news organisations rapidly adopt generative AI\, they are increasingly delegating core processes of communication and meaning making to machines. In this talk\, Bronwyn weaves together three strands of her current work which spans practice\, research\, and policy. She asks: what happens if we co-write the ‘first draft of history’ with AI? If we semi-automate this ‘cornerstone of democracy’? And how might we innovate responsibly with AI for journalism in the public interest? \n\n\nBio\nDr Bronwyn Jones is a social scientist and journalist. As a Translational Fellow for the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme\, she researches artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies in news production and their implications for the public sphere in democracies. As a DCMS Policy Fellow\, she is exploring the risks generative AI poses for journalism as an industry and form of knowledge production. At the BBC\, she covers regional news online and works with the research and development department to help newsrooms navigate technological change. Bronwyn is focused on fostering fruitful collaboration and translation between academia and industry; she works to ensure theory and evidence inform the development of public interest-driven socio-technical systems in the media industry\, and on-the-ground realities inform scholarly debate. \nX – @bronwynjo \n\n\nWatch the recording now:
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-series-dr-bronwyn-jones
LOCATION:Inspace\, Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:AI and the Arts: Who’s Responsible (Artist’s and Curatorial events)
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Copyright George Torode 2024. \nThe AI and the Arts: Who’s Responsible – Artist’s and Curatorial events\, happened on 18th and 19th January at the Science Gallery London\, developed in partnership with FutureEverything. The events were undertaken as part of the UKRI AHRC BRAID Programme – Inspired Innovation theme\, focusing on Responsible AI within the Creative Arts\, to coincide with Science Gallery London’s exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After You?’. This was the first in a series of UKRI BRAID Creative Community Engagement events intended to build upon existing networks and strengthen the AI and Arts ecosystem in the UK. \nWe had two days of excellent discussion with a dream line up of 21 speakers\, presenters and provocateurs. Day one was a round table workshop bring together 50-ish artists\, creatives and researchers\, from across the UK Arts and AI ecosystem\, focusing on concerns and potentials within Responsible AI and the Arts\, covering issues such as IP\, consent\, bias and responsibility. Day two was a theatre style event attended by 100-ish people working in the arts sector including curators\, producers\, gallerists\, funders and researchers\, focusing on best practice\, potentials and concerns around Responsible AI and the Arts. The event included curatorial case studies\, practicalities and resources experiences\, and thinking through the stories we tell within “what we see\, show and tell\, about whom\, with what\, and why” in relation to AI (Zylinska\, 2020: 153). \nActivities included lightning presentations\, participatory tasks in small groups and an attempt to create a collective consensus statement representing the opinions of the speakers and attendees at the close of each day (which also allowed room for outlying opinion). \nIt was wonderful to have such an engaged audience of early\, mid and established career practitioners\, and a range of organisations from artist run to large-scale museums and commercial sector\, alongside freelance curators\, asking important questions about a wide range of issues around ethics\, responsibility and AI for the arts. The attendees represented a wide geographic spread\, with regional diversity across the UK\, from Inverness to Brighton\, Wales\, Liverpool and Newcastle (where possible supported by the BRAID access fund). \nKey discussions that emerged included: \n\nthe outdated concept of IP\nimbalances\, tensions and shifts in power between the arts\, tech sector and other fields\nhow best to negotiate the ethics and practicalities of the arts when employed as a testing ground for the tech sector – what does working ethically together look like?\nthe artist as benevolent witness\nsolidarity over than competitiveness in the creative arts\nthe future of creative skills as discernment\, judgement and curation\nthe need for a representation and diversity of voices within AI and the Arts\, what this diversity looks like and where current power lies\nthe precarity of the arts\, cultural institutions and funding\nthe need for pastoral care for artists\, in addition to financial and skills support\nthe decades of practice already undertaken within the arts around Responsible AI\nchallenges for arts freelancers in attending\, accessing and participating in research activities\nhow to best bridge the activities of the creative arts into impacting policy and innovation\nthe need for cross-collaboration from all nations across the UK\nAccess to tools\, technology and the cultural sector itself\n\nDocumentation of the rich consensus statements created can be found below\, accompanied by the fabulous illustrated notes created in-situ throughout the events\, by illustrator Jonny Glover. \nThanks to Science Gallery London and FutureEverything\, support and developing the event with the BRAID team\, and to Data + Design Lab at Edinburgh Futures Institute for facilitating the event activities. \nFollow us at @braid__uk and sign up to our newsletter for information about future events. \nList of Speakers: \n(Day 1 – Artist’s event)\ndmstfctn – artist duo\nReema Selhi – DACS artists’ rights management organisation\nMartin Zeilinger – University of Abertay\nDaniel Chavez Heras – Creative AI Lab/King’s College London\nYasmine Boudiaf – researcher and artist\nAlan Warburton – artist\, animator\nCaroline Sinders – human rights researcher and artist \n(Day 2 – Curatorial event)\nJoanna Zylinska – Creative AI Lab/King’s College London\nLuba Elliott – Independent Curator\nKay Watson – Serpentine Galleries\nHannah Redler Hawes –Open Data Institute\nImogen Hare – Gazelli Art House/gazell.io\nIrini Mirena –FutureEverything\nSarah Cook – University of Glasgow\nJennifer Wong – Science Gallery London\nNatalie Kane & Katherine Mitchell – V&A Museum\nDonna Holford-Lovell – NEoN Digital Arts\nDrew Hemment & Matjaz Vidmar – The New Real\nHelena Geilinger – Somerset House Studios
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/ai-and-the-arts-whos-responsible-artists-and-curatorial-events
LOCATION:Private: Science Gallery London\, Great Maze Pond\, SE1 9GU\, London\, SE1 9GU\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:BRAID Launch at BBC London Broadcasting House
DESCRIPTION:Watch the full livestream now:\n \nOn 15 September 2023\, BRAID hosted its launch event at BBC London Broadcasting House\, bringing together a diverse community of policymakers\, artists\, academics and industry representatives. With a keynote from Humane Intelligence CEO Dr Rumman Chowdhury and three panels of responsible AI experts discussing the latest issues\, challenges\, and opportunities AI is posing to today’s world\, this event truly encapsulated BRAID’s aims and values as a programme. Watch the livestream now!
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/braid-launch-at-bbc-london-broadcasting-house
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