welcome x

https://spectrum.ieee.org/timnit-gebru-dair-ai-ethics

a board by the AIxDESIGN community <3

“I don’t want to destruct notions without constructing new ones” [Abdo]

The current discourse around AI is dominated by capitalist values / its obsession with scale, growth, and profitability / led by silicon valley workers and tech bros / harmful ideas such as longtermism and others which Timnit Gebru & Emile Torres bundled into the acronym TESCREAL. We’re not into it.

https://cdn.kinopio.club/pk-IGjSLOdWjgCyYsay9E/image.pn

WHAT IS THIS PLACE?

slow AI

plurality & agency

joyful subversion

“We don’t have to shut down the factory - we can just poke a stick in the machine” - Abdo

‘democratizing AI’ & better definitions

what is ‘better’ AI? what juxtaposes the TESCREAL movement?

what terms resonate?

https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/

We’re not sure what to call it but terms we’ve heard and resonate with its intentions are Slow AI, Participatory AI, AI alignment, and Beyond-Corporate AI.

After a short stint of disillusionment from the topic altogether: we want to explore, create, gather, and generate alternative ways of building and designing but also thinking and talking about AI.

Not just deconstructing or critiquing what we don’t want, but actively trying to construct what we do.

From a place of care, equity, ecologies, feminism, and other values that we align with.

2022 been a crazzzaayy year for AI and AIxD. I’m feeling a little out of breath / out of synch / out of alignment