DNL#18: ALGORITHMIC BIAS: AI Traps and Possible Escapes: Caroline Sinders, Sarah Grant, Ruth Catlow
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2019-12-19

ACTIVATION: Collective Strategies to Expose Injustice

18th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1. 
https://www.disruptionlab.org/activation

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Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli 
Community Director: Lieke Ploeger 
Programme Managers: Nada Bakr, Monti Harmony 

Credits: 
Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org 
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com 
Graphic: Jonas Frankki 
CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 

30 November, 2019 


19:35 - 20:30
ALGORITHMIC BIAS: AI Traps and Possible Escapes

Caroline Sinders (Machine Learning Designer/User Researcher, Artist, Digital Anthropologist, USA/DE) and Sarah Grant (Media Artist and Educator, Radical Networks, USA/DE) in conversation with Ruth Catlow (Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, Furtherfield, UK).

Algorithms are not neutral and unbiased, but instead often reflect, reinforce and automate the current and historical biases and inequalities of society, such as social, racial and gender prejudices. This panel frames this issue in the context of the work of both speakers, and aims to discuss some possible escapes. In her work, Caroline Sinders focuses on the intersections of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment and politics in digital, conversational spaces. She will discuss what an intersectional Feminist AI could look like, and how we could get it. Sarah Grant organises Radical Networks, a community event and arts festival for critical investigations, social justice, and creative experiments in telecommunications. She will go into how the repeated biases and behaviours that we find in Internet and network access could find themselves patterned and spread into AI systems. Together, what new feminisms and new Internets could we imagine?