Click and Collect: Show me your dataset

Who decides what the future will look, feel or sound like? When thinking about AI conversation tends towards its biases and asymmetric development and implementation. It is clear that the goals behind its mainstream development haven’t been human-centered nor have they had a horizontal/diverse set of voices embedded in its design. Science fiction has played a very interesting role in the way in which both specialized and non-specialized agents have approached AI.

The strong narratives behind ideas such as singularity and AI overpowering humans have been written and rewritten in novels, movies, podcasts, videogames and more, but how do these narratives impact our relationship with AI? Can we build new narratives which include a more horizontal, sustainable and caring AI? How can we speculate about the future of AI by rethinking what privacy, agency and trust mean for these systems?

To dive deeper into these questions, Somerset House presents Click and Collect: Show me your dataset, a one-day event where a group of artists, curators, researchers, and storytellers reflect upon the current ecology of AI. This event includes discussions, talks, a performance, a workshop, and a commented tour through the resulting artwork from the PATH AI Residency Programme.

Curated by Doreen A. Ríos

PROGRAMME

LANCASTER ROOMS

13.10 | Lunch

16.15 | Break

River Rooms

G20

ABOUT PATH-AI

Privacy, Agency, and Trust in Human-AI Ecosystems (PATH-AI) is a collaborative and multidisciplinary research project between The Alan Turing Institute, the University of Edinburgh, and the RIKEN research institute in Japan. The aim of the project is to examine how the three interrelated values of privacy, agency, and trust work together in the very different cultural contexts of the UK and Japan in relation to AI and other data-driven technologies. Grounded in new research summarised in the PATH-AI interim report, the residency supports artists to engage with the report’s themes and findings, from the theoretical and cultural background of these values, to how they are being expressed and performed through everyday lived experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of exploring how differing intercultural understandings of these values can inform the ongoing shaping of the international landscape. This work is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Japan Science and Technology Agency.

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