#DNL16 ·  Charlotte Webb: WHAT IS A FEMINIST AI? Possible Feminisms, Possible Internets · #AITRAPS
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2019-06-27

Disruption Network Lab 
An ongoing platform of events and research on art, hacktivism and disruption in Berlin. 

Berlin, June 14-15, 2019
AI TRAPS: Automating Discrimination
16th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1.

Web: https://www.disruptionlab.org/ai-traps 
Twitter: @disruptberlin 
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Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Community Director: Lieke Ploeger 
Programme Managers: Daniela Silvestrin, Nada Bakr, Monti Harmony

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Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com 
Graphic: Jonas Frankki 
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14 June, 2019
19:15-20:45
WHAT IS A FEMINIST AI? Possible Feminisms, Possible Internets.

Charlotte Webb (Co-founder, Feminist Internet & Even Consultancy, UK). Moderated by Lieke Ploeger (Community Director, Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE).

What kind of new socio-political imaginary can be instantiated by attempting to design a Feminist Internet? How can feminist methods and values inform the development of less biased technologies? What is a feminist AI? In this keynote, Charlotte Webb will discuss how a collection of artists, designers and creative technologists have been using feminisms, creative practice and technology to explore these questions. She will discuss the challenges of designing a ‘Feminist Alexa’, which Feminist Internet has been attempting in response to the ways biased voice technologies are saturating markets and colonising homes across the globe. She will discuss how the use of feminist design standards can help ensure that technologies do not knowingly or unknowingly reproduce bias, and introduce the audience to Feminist Internet’s most recent project – a feminist chatbot that aims to teach people about AI bias.