Theatre, A.I. and 'ludic technologies'
WORKSHOPS
Symposium I
There will be three parallel Workshop Sessions running between 14:00-17:00. You will be able to choose which one to attend. This will be organised through the breakout rooms in ZOOM. The three workshops are as follows:
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1) Making AI Understandable (BBC)
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2) How Do We Understand Trust and The Need to Design Autonomous Systems for Trust? (Thales Group)
3) Jazz as Social Machine (University of Southampton/Turing Institute)
Making AI Understandable
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The workshop will explore creative ways of explaining AI by addressing the following questions:
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What can we make that demystifies AI for the public, across digital products to education, media, language, imagery and culture?
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How can we help make better mental models of how AI works?
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Can we make people care about understanding AI? How can we show where it touches peoples’ lives and affects individuals?
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How can we better show the benefits and limitations of AI systems?
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How can we ensure explaining AI benefits the individual and society, and enables trust in AI systems where appropriate?
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Workshop leader: Tristan Ferne (BBC)
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Documentation:
How Do We Understand Trust and The Need to Design Autonomous Systems for Trust?
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The aim for the workshop will be to explore the challenges involved regarding designing for trust, and to use cross-disciplinary insights to develop:
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a more comprehensive understanding of trust and agency considerations;
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effective methods to educate and engage robotic and autonomous systems practitioners on the importance of designing for trust, which can be developed and implemented following the workshop;
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a public engagement piece that conveys this in an interesting and engaging way.
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Workshop leader: Shalaka Kurup (Thales Group)
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Documentation:
Jazz as Social Machine
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The workshop will comprise of talks and a round-table discussion
Session 1: Jazz as Social Machine (90 minutes)
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“Political ecologies of jazz and machine learning:Project overview and theoretical considerations” (Dr Thomas Irvine, University of Southampton/Alan Turing Institute)
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“Jazz, movement, resistance, data: What does it mean to imagine the history of jazz as the history of a social machine?” (Prof Christopher J Smith, Texas Tech University)
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“Breaking the Chains, an interactive multimedia sound and game environment about jazz and AI” (Dr Brona Martin, University of Kent)
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Q & A
Session 2: Towards ludic understandings of data and art (round-table). Respondent Dr Seth Giddings, Winchester School of Art) (90 minutes)
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Workshop leader: Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton/Turing Institute)
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