DESIGN JUSTICE AI
Global Humanities Post-Institute
*This event has concluded. Video recordings of “DESIGN JUSTICE AI: Global Humanities Post-Institute” can be found, along with the event program, below.
Thurs. May 8, 10am-5:30pm Eastern
Location: 302 Murray Hall, George St.
We concluded 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
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
Panel 2: DESIGN JUSTICE NOW!
12:00pm-1:30 Eastern
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
Panel 3: DESIGN JUSTICE ONTOLOGIES
2:00pm-3:30 Eastern
Dalaki Livingston (U Utah) discusses Indigenous ontological and epistemological perspectives on AI.
Moderator: David Hughes
Panel 4: BENCHMARKING INTELLIGENCE: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 4:00pm-5:30 Eastern
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
