PAK POP UP @ Recess Assembly Gallery functioned as a gathering place and catalyst for discussion about artificial intelligence and algorithms in relation to communities of color.
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An open conversation about empathy in AI.
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Recess Assembly Peer Mentor Matthew talks to his bot Genesis Apostle.
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Project al-Khwarizmi (PAK)
Project al-Khwarizmi (PAK) is a series of workshops for communities of color that use art as a vehicle to help citizens understand how algorithms, the artificially intelligent systems they underpin, and big data impact their lives and empowers them to do something about it. Project al-Khwarizmi uses art and aesthetics as the common language to help citizens understand what algorithms and artificial intelligent systems are, and where these systems already impact our daily lives.
Project al-Khwarizmi (PAK), named after medieval Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi who introduced the concepts of algebra to the West, will gather artists, youth, and elders of color, along with computer and data scientists, to collaborate on the conceptualization, design, and ultimately, deployment of a web-based artificial intelligence “chatbot” capable of simulating human conversation. Leading up to the design of the chatbot, participants will explore conceptually how to design algorithms to navigate daily life. (The instructions black parents give their adolescent children for surviving police encounters is an example of a practical algorithm that might be explored during workshops.) This exercise is twofold: it helps project participants to understand the application and implications of AI and algorithms to their lives, and it will be the basis for algorithms developed for the chatbot.
Participants succeed with knowledges they already possess, such as cultural, street, and empirical knowledge, to collaboratively design algorithms to subvert or interrupt biased systems. When intervention of biased systems is not possible, methods of exploiting biases built into algorithmic systems to support, rather than hinder, communities of color will be examined.
PAK workshops are intended to gather a diverse group of artists, activists, technologists and everyday people most affected by AI and provide them a robust platform to create together. In this case, design thinking will be employed to brainstorm and conceptualize culturally intelligent AI that demonstrates the promise of socially equitable, less biased AI oriented towards constructive and inquisitive ends.
Project al-Khwarizmi (PAK), named after medieval Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi who introduced the concepts of algebra to the West, will gather artists, youth, and elders of color, along with computer and data scientists, to collaborate on the conceptualization, design, and ultimately, deployment of a web-based artificial intelligence “chatbot” capable of simulating human conversation. Leading up to the design of the chatbot, participants will explore conceptually how to design algorithms to navigate daily life. (The instructions black parents give their adolescent children for surviving police encounters is an example of a practical algorithm that might be explored during workshops.) This exercise is twofold: it helps project participants to understand the application and implications of AI and algorithms to their lives, and it will be the basis for algorithms developed for the chatbot.
Participants succeed with knowledges they already possess, such as cultural, street, and empirical knowledge, to collaboratively design algorithms to subvert or interrupt biased systems. When intervention of biased systems is not possible, methods of exploiting biases built into algorithmic systems to support, rather than hinder, communities of color will be examined.
PAK workshops are intended to gather a diverse group of artists, activists, technologists and everyday people most affected by AI and provide them a robust platform to create together. In this case, design thinking will be employed to brainstorm and conceptualize culturally intelligent AI that demonstrates the promise of socially equitable, less biased AI oriented towards constructive and inquisitive ends.
AI Story Circle
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A visitor schools us about AI (excerpt).
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An impromptu wage conversation.
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A code of dance prelude to algorithms.
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Project al-Khwarizmi (PAK)
is generously supported by:
NEW INC,
A BLADE OF GRASS
RECESS ART
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
is generously supported by:
NEW INC,
A BLADE OF GRASS
RECESS ART
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY