Designing for Justice? Generative Questions about the Challenges of AI

Date & time

Fri 07 Jul 2023, 3.30–5pm

Location

Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University Canberra, ACT 2601

Contacts

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A hybrid event exploring intersections of AI and justice with an interdisciplinary panel of international researchers.

Join an interdisciplinary panel of international AI researchers to discuss these emerging shifts and their implications for design and questions of justice.

Date: Friday, July 7 · 3:30 - 6:30pm AEST
Location: Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University Canberra, ACT 2601

Panel: 3:30 - 5pm
Chair: Kate Henne, Director of RegNet, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU
Panelists: Michelle Jasper (Cybernetics, ANU), Katrina Sluis (Photography and Media Arts, ANU), Matthew Stone (Computer Science, Rutgers University), Wesley Taylor (Graphic Design, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Reception: 5 - 6:30pm

We are witnessing a rapid diffusion of so-called “generative AI”—that is, machine learning technologies that simulate human languages, communication, arts, and cultural expression through the statistical modelling of vast troves of internet data. This rise has generated questions about the prospective impact on creative practice, knowledge production and methods of learning. Concerns around copyright infringement, misinformation, plagiarism and the spread of harmful content have highlighted how these machine learning systems can create and exacerbate forms of injustice and inequity. What, then, can be done to foster proactive responses to these issues? Can different approaches to design help ensure these technologies work in the public interest and are safe, accountable and inclusive to the wide range of communities who engage them?

If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan please contact the event organiser.

Funded by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes as part of the Design Justice AI Global Humanities Institute. This is event is part of the CHCI Global Humanities Institute, an ANU-Rutgers collaboration funded by the CHCI-Mellon foundation; the project will be housed in the Humanities Research Centre and includes ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences and ANU College of Asia & the Pacific academics as investigators, including Prof Kath Bode, Prof Adrian Mackenzie, Prof Kate Henne, A/Prof Katrina Sluis.