In this Social Moment, we will make time to be in our bodies, to dance with the troubles of AI. We are
responsible innovation practitioners working with performance art, yoga, sci-fi and street dance to develop a choreography in which each movement embodies an ethical principle for innovating in AI. Inspired by Donna Haraway and ritual design, together we will perform a ritual embracing the magical, illogical, delightful and laughable to inspire healthier AI.
We will rehearse with our bodies, rituals for anticipating, noticing, and addressing ethical tensions - to nurture a mindset of collaborative creativity and radical care. Beyond the duties of data management, privacy, justice, sustainability and diversity, we aim to support capacities to respond to uncertainty with music, movement and ethical values.
You don’t need to be able to dance, but you will need video on and space to move.
We want to co-create and share these rituals, and develop the process to create them with others so that we can use them ourselves and expand on them to embrace the embodied, the magical and the hilarious within our work on responsibility with AI innovators. We hope that our participants will want to do the same. We would love to stay in touch with attendees and find out how these rituals have found a place in their lives and work, and maybe what new rituals . Perhaps this will develop in to a lexicon of response-able AI dance rituals that will be added to as our conceptions of responsible AI grows and evolves. Perhaps we will see them flower in coffee breaks at AI labs across the world. Perhaps it will lead to AI developers gaining a more intrinsic understanding of the embodied experiences of humans in AI systems.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:We will work flexibly with the number of people we have in attendance, using breakout rooms where necessary. If we have very few then we will work together as a group throughout, with camera off time to think and sharing on camera. If we have 30 participants, we will make use of our collaborators as facilitators in breakout rooms where we need to.
Viv is a lecturer in Responsible Innovation based at the University of Bristol, UK. She works on developing responsible and reflexive capacities of innovators through creative, immersive and playful experiences.
Malé is a Design Researcher working in Responsible Innovation via creative methods, based at The Centre for Innovation (University of Bristol). She likes to play, mementos and magic tokens.
