MozFest 2021: Welcome to the Creative AI Space!
How can humans and machines collaborate to co-create a better future that unleashes the best of us?
The MozFest 2021 call for proposals is now officially open! The Creative AI space invites you to submit a session proposal that pushes the boundaries of human-machine creativity. In the Creative AI space, we aim to gather people, movements, and ideas to re-envision, question, and interact with AI and its effects on our daily lives.
What is the Creative AI space?
Human creativity is the driver behind our most important accomplishments and our most prominent failures. The emergence of AI presents both new opportunities as well as new challenges for human creativity.
In the Creative AI space, we invite you to explore the fusion of human and machine creativity, to interrogate AI and its complexity, prejudices, and power, and to envision solutions to its most pressing issues. Together, we will host experiences around teaching, governing, and creating AI and with AI. Through a gathering of technologists, activists, and artists, we hope to catalyze re-envisioning what AI can contribute to our daily lives, and how we can creatively cope, question and play with it.
By experimenting with this complexity, our goal is to create discussions, interventions, and novel outlooks that celebrate the playfulness and the boundless creative horizon of human-machine interactions.
What kinds of sessions can I propose?
Your proposed session can fall under the following categories: (1) art, film, and podcasts, (2) social moments, (3) discussions, (4) skill shares, and (5) workshops. Whether your proposed session consists of critical reflections, forward-facing discussions, lecture series, web-native exhibitions, workshops, open studio sessions, or any combination of these, we are looking to work with individuals and groups who are pushing the boundaries of human and machine creativity.
What are some themes of interest?
This space is going to be curated not only by us, the Creative AI wranglers, but also by you through your submissions. And so, this space can take on a variety of themes and forms! Having said that, I thought I’d share what Creative AI means to me — a computer-human intelligence researcher interested in trustworthy AI, social justice, and technology education.
Trustworthy AI
Trustworthy AI depends on how transparent, interpretable, and robust AI systems are. However, the definition and path to ‘trust’ varies across different cultures. So… then what does trustworthy AI look like? Can we present a crowd-sourced picture of what ‘trust’ in intelligent technologies constitutes around the globe?
Biased AI
AI propagates the biases of the past. In other words, it automates the status quo. What this means is automating biases against already marginalized and minority communities like women, people of color, and low-income community members in often high-stakes AI applications from hiring to criminal justice. How can we use art to elevate these issues and mobilize people to oppose them and hold those responsible accountable?
Invisible AI
Many of our recommendation systems, surveillance systems, hiring systems, and more are driven by intelligent algorithms. How can we make these seemingly invisible algorithms more visible? Can we demystify how and when they collect, process, and present our data?
Teaching AI
When I think of AI education, I think of two things (1) teaching AI to those interested in pursuing it professionally and (2) AI literacy, not necessarily at the level of code, but at the level of human-algorithm interaction. As AI technologies make their way into every part of our lives, they are pushing ‘digital literacy’ to a whole new level. How can we create inclusive, culturally-responsive, and accessible educational materials to increase public awareness of the good, the bad, and the ugly side of AI algorithms for everyone using them rather than just everyone creating them?
Join Us
We would love to see your submission to the Creative AI space. We invite everyone — technologists, activists, artists, educators, and policymakers— to share, discuss, or present their work in this space! If you’re new to MozFest or facilitating sessions, then fear not, our team will work with you on creating an incredible session this year! You can check out MozFest 101, the space descriptions, and the call for proposals as you work on crafting a proposal. We can’t wait to read it!
Join us on this journey of connecting, discovering, and reimagining the form and function of the technologies that have come to govern our lives. Submit your proposal (before November 23rd 2020) here.
— Lujain
