Intimacy and AI
*TUESDAY MARCH 16* join us at “Co-Opting AI: Public Conversations About Design, Inequality, and Technology” (rsvp required), a panel organized by Dr. Mona Sloane and hosted by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the Center for Responsible AI. Decoding Stigma’s Gabriella Garcia will join Hannah Zeavin in a conversation about how our intimate lives are mediated by technology, and artificial intelligence specifically, and vice versa.
In Gabriella’s words:
I’ve been asked to provide a “provocation” as part of my presentation, so I decided to use two projects to explore questions of intimacy as it relates to AI from two different but inevitably converging perspectives.
@virtuoso.vibe
What does it mean to train artificial neural networks in a society that shames us from exploring certain naturally-occurring neural networks in our bodies?
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What could algorithms look like if those who labor in sex industries are asked about their experienced observations from the frontlines of intimate encounter?
Still working on the language of these questions (and certainly don’t have the answers) so come be a part of the conversation to hear more!