EXPERIMENTING WITH AI / by Camille Aubry

This month I was extremely lucky to be invited by the Knowle West Media Centre to take part in two workshop focusing on AI. With ‘Guess Who?’, an initiative led by Ellie Foreman and Rachel Smith, I learned more about facial recognition systems and their limitations, especially when it comes to diversity. With ‘Becoming an AI activist’, a workshop led by artists and creative technologists Coral Manton and Birgitte Aga, I discovered more about how conversational AI could be used for protest. Visual representations of AI are often blue and masculine. Chat bots often use women voices, yet the conversations are mainly created by men. If our bodies and voices are being used, how can women reclaim AI? Find out more about this amazing project here.