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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

 

HoAI Methods and Critical Issues Training - 'Assistance,' Resistance and Algorithmic Cultures'

HoAI Methods and Critical Issues Training - '"Assistance," Resistance and Algorithmic Cultures'

Time: Wednesday 28 April @ 15:00-17:00 BST

Co-facilitated by: Tawana Petty (Stanford PACS), Mara Mills (NYU), Yulia Frumer (Johns Hopkins University)

This session juxtaposes learnings from disability studies and the history of humanoid robotics with contemporary efforts to use data as a tool for protest, collective action and accountability. We examine the cultural assumptions that have informed, and continue to inform, algorithmic cultures in robotics and AI. We question how to subvert and resist these assumptions.

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Jonathan Arac (via bell hooks, 1997)

‘The process of remembering can be a practice which “transforms history from a judgement on the past in the name of a present truth to a “counter-memory” that combats our current modes of truth and justice, helping us to understand and change the present by placing it in a new relation to the past.”’

Bauman, Legislators and Interpreters (via Wynter, 2003)

'Definitions of the intellectual are many and diverse. They have, however, one trait in common, which makes them also different from all other definitions: they are all self-definitions. Indeed, their authors are the members of the same rare species they attempt to define...'

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