DESIGN JUSTICE AI: Global Humanities Post-Institute

DESIGN JUSTICE AI: Global Humanities Post-Institute

Thursday, May 8, 10am-5:30pm

Location: 302 Murray Hall, George St.

We conclude last July’s Mellon-CHCI Global Humanities Institute with a post-institute that features four panels from our continuing work in DESIGN JUSTICE AI.

Program

Panel 1: DESIGN JUSTICE AI: Why the Local Matters

10am-11:30 Eastern

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Vukosi Marivate (U Pretoria) and Happy Buzaaba (Princeton) discuss recent work on adapting large language models for Natural Language Processing tasks in “low-resource” African languages.

Moderator: Eleni Coundouriotis

Coffee Break

Panel 2: DESIGN JUSTICE NOW! (Lunch will be served for in-person attendees!) 

12:00pm-1:30 Eastern

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Wes Taylor and Nour Arafat from Design Justice Network describe how design justice principles can intersect with “AI” developments inside the academy and beyond it.

Moderator: Daniel Estrada

Coffee Break

Panel 3: DESIGN JUSTICE ONTOLOGIES 

2:00pm-3:30 Eastern

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Dalaki Livingston (U Utah) and Chloë Kitzinger (Rutgers) will discuss new ontological and epistemological perspectives on AI, from Indigenous philosophies to the writings of Dostoevsky.

Moderator: David Hughes

Coffee Break

Panel 4: BENCHMARKING INTELLIGENCE: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 4:00pm-5:30 Eastern

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Webb Keane (U Michigan) joins  Lauren M.E. Goodlad (Rutgers) and Matthew Stone (Rutgers) to discuss ideas for the “benchmarking” of machine intelligence drawn from anthropology and comparative literature.

Moderator: Colin Jager

Reception