BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//BRAID UK - ECPv6.14.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://braiduk.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for BRAID UK
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20250101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250424T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250424T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T221816
CREATED:20241003T113453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T132426Z
UID:2624-1745510400-1745514000@braiduk.org
SUMMARY:'Responsible AI Futures' Hybrid Seminar - Dr Dan McQuillan
DESCRIPTION:Responsible AI means Decomputing\nIn this talk Dan McQuillan will argue that having a responsible approach to AI means decomputing. To start with\, decomputing means less computing; in particular\, less of the hyperscale infrastructures which underpin generative AI and whose datacentres are sprouting like mushrooms across the globe. \n\n\nBut decomputing goes beyond concern for environmental impacts to challenge the commitment of the wider AI apparatus to extractivism and scale. AI as we know it exploits sources of data and labour as well as natural resources like energy\, water and minerals. Meanwhile its claims to superior intelligence rest on the continually expanding size of its models and datasets. Decomputing draws on both decolonialism and degrowth\, arguing for an approach to AI based on the need for social justice and a just transition. \nAll too often\, AI acts as a reductive diversion from complex social and environmental questions\, so decomputing seeks alternatives that are relational\, collective and truly response-able\, because they can respond to the complexities of lived experience. \n\n\n\n\nBio\nDr Dan McQuillan\, Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing at Goldsmiths\, University of London \nAfter a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics\, Dan worked with people learning disabilities & mental health issues\, created websites with asylum seekers\, ran social tech camps in Kyrgyzstan and Sarajevo and worked for Amnesty International and the NHS. He recently authored ‘Resisting AI – An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence’ \nWatch the recording below:
URL:https://braiduk.org/event/responsible-ai-futures-hybrid-seminar-dr-dan-mcquillan
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:DI Lecture Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://braiduk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/4.png
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR