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Throughout November, we’re inviting all curious CATs to join the 🐱 CAT Generative AI Exploratorium ✨ – a collaborative journey in which you will be able to question, learn, practice, and reflect on the intersection of climate action in tech and generative AI.

A synthetic love story in the era of generative AI: humanizing generative models dehumanizes humans. Featuring the Shoggoth, an AI meme based on the similarities between the Lovecraftian creature and Large Language Models, and Synthiola, the creator’s synthetic AI persona. A synthographic motion picture by Fabian Mosele, created with a novel mix between 2D animation and generative visuals powered by Stable Diffusion, AnimateDiff and Gen-3 Alpha. Watch the NO AI version: https://vimeo.com/1001696755 Watch the ONLY AI version: https://vimeo.com/1001699780 Music by Lafayette Vanderkin-Jus, kazu*2 and Fabian Mosele Voices by Nina Nikolic, Jiezl V.Chua and Reeko Brooks Camera by Hsun Hsiang Hsu Additional animations by Elnaz M.Asl Funded by Filmbüro Bremen and Nordmedia More info: https://www.fabianmosele.com/democratizing-synthiola #animation #shortfilm

Code Green is a media series that separates the heat from the hype around climate tech in Asia

Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.

Our virtual and real lives are almost completely interconnected. Online, offline, virtual, physical & genders—all blend into a hypersoup with one ingredient particularly standing out. AI has furiously entered the chat. Under dominant ideologies, new technology often exploits rather than aids. This workshop invites diverse participants to subvert in a creative way these practices and [...]

An archive of an undergraduate class on the context, history and ethical issues of AI images.

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Within the last decade a large corpus of work in HCI as well as the commercial design practice has focused on systematically addressing questions of ethics, values and moral considerations embedded in the design of digital technology. Recent critiques have highlighted that these efforts fall short of actual transformative impact. We use the sociological concept of imaginaries to argue that value and ethics work needs to be considered within the larger context of socially shared visions of a desirable future and outline how existing sociotechnical imaginaries pre-frame contexts in which value work is deployed. We demonstrate that imaginaries provide the language and conceptual framework necessary to address underlying ethical worldviews before ethics driven design methods and toolkits can be successfully employed. Finally we suggest how to engage imaginaries to facilitate a broader shift towards a more politically sensitive approach to designerly value work.

How ancestral wisdom passed down through generations can shape the future of artificial intelligence? And how to create technologies that honor and integrate different temporal perspectives? If we consider ourselves as the first generation with such technological power in our hands, what kind of ancestors of the future will we be? ​Ancestral AI posits a transformative approach to technology, advocating for an integration of time-honored wisdom with modern AI development. By embracing the deep insights of our ancestors, this initiative aims to steer the evolution of technology toward a more sustainable and harmonious future, ensuring that advancements are not only technically sound but also ethically grounded. ​This webinar is tailored for AI professionals, researchers, cultural theorists, and anyone interested in how technology intersects with ethical, social, and cultural dimensions. To learn more about how ancient wisdom can revolutionize technological advancements and to hear firsthand from our esteemed speakers about their innovative approaches to AI, make sure to register. ​🐚 ANCESTRAL AI w/ GUSTAVO: How AI affect our relationship with time? ​Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes is a Brazilian researcher specializing in temporalities, the narratives, and systems that influence our perception of time. Based in Amsterdam, he leads Torus Company and Temporality Lab, focusing on multiple temporalities from a decolonial perspective with a transdisciplinary global community. His research covers topics like social change, ancestrality, speculative design, and decoloniality, providing insight into time's impact on human experience and inspiring a rethinking of our relationship with time. As Research Lead for Ancestral AI, Gustavo highlights that in the realm of technology, especially in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, invoking the concept of ancestrality means proposing a framework that is deeply informed by these time-tested insights and values. ​​🧚 GUEST: MONIQUE LEMOS: How AI is Killing Black People Monique is the author of the ongoing work "HOW AI IS KILLING BLACK IMAGINARIES: updates on the concept of Necropolitics and tools for an anti-racist data learning future". A creative approach to mitigate some damage of racism by creating anti-racist awareness and imagining radical Black futures. ​​🧚‍♂️ GUEST: THIAGO BRITTO: The Preservation of Black Memories ​Thiago focuses on creating contemporary images using artificial intelligence. He seeks to apply these new technologies in socially relevant ways, aiming to contribute to a better preservation of black memory in Brazil. ABOUT SLOW AI PROJECT ​​​In this project, we will interrogate and publish critical AI discourse in a format that makes sense to us and our practices, namely zines and creative technology installations. Inspired by the counter-movements of slow fashion and slow food, this project will investigate three emerging AI counter-narratives –Small AI 🐜, Ancestral AI 🐚, and Esoteric AI 🔮 – and explore what it might look like to incorporate them in our everyday practice. ​​​At project end we will publish an anthology – a hot compost pile of miro boards, zines, and art that we hope sparks new ways to think and talk about AI. ​​​Follow this page to stay up-to-date on Slow AI. Slow AI is made possible by Stimuleringsfonds ​ABOUT AIxDESIGN ​​​AIxDESIGN is a global community of designers, researchers, creative technologists, and activists using AI in pursuit of creativity, justice and joy and living lab exploring participatory, slow, and more-than-corporate AI. Learn more at aixdesign.co.

ABOUT THE SESSION​We will challenge conventional views by exploring AI's potential as a provocative tool for introspection and critical reflection. How does ...

As part of Esoteric AI’s exploration of new, critical but productive ways of engaging and understanding AI, practically and conceptually, we turn to the desi...

In this two part episode, we sit down with Ploipailin Flynn, founding member of AI x Design, a global community and decentralized studio for critical and creative AI research & design. In this conversation, we discuss why understanding how AI systems are built is crucial for creating better outcomes and why measuring the outcomes of AI in communities and tracking deployed models is essential. Ploi shares her expertise on how designing user interfaces for different stakeholders can facilitate feedback, uphold data rights and why involving outside organizations can help evaluate the fairness of AI systems, while also creating defensible positions on company's responsibility with AI.

Data Poets project explorse embodied interactions between people and urban spaces through AI, pushing the boundaries of how we experience AI beyond screens and voices. Inspired by the organic...

Use the power of Artificial Intelligence to generate intimate, thoughtful, and beautiful letters.

“The technologies built by a few techies from Silicon Valley run everything and none of us know how they work.” - David Middleback, Re-inventing Education for the Digital Age A few months ago I was struck with the genius idea of embarking on a PhD program. My project aimed at figuring out how we can make some of those Silicon Valley AI technologies ‘better’ for everyone affected by them. It sounded simple enough, right? Well, it turns out that this simple description I was using to explain to fr