What does AI need from you? 

In this workshop, ABOG Fellow Stephanie Dinkins asks, “What Does AI need from you?” She explores how algorithms — decision-making procedures that computers use — create identity groups, privileging some and discriminating against others, particularly communities of color. Workshop participants will collaboratively envision how algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) will impact their lives in the future, and how the development of these technologies can be more ethically pursued in the present. A conversation follows between Dinkins and Marcus Ellington, Head of Industry for Media and Entertainment at Google, where his team oversees Google and YouTube’s cable television and advertising business.

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited! Please RSVP to: rsvp@abladeofgrass.org

Stephanie Dinkins is an artist interested in creating platforms for ongoing dialog about artificial intelligence as it intersects race, gender, aging and our future histories. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to develop deep-rooted AI literacy and co-create more culturally inclusive equitable artificial intelligence. Dinkins holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is also an alumna of the International Center of Photography and the Independent Studies Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Her artwork is exhibited internationally, at a broad spectrum of community, private and institutional venues by design– including Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaujvaros, Hungary; Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Spellman College Museum of Fine Art; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Wave Hill, Studio Museum in Harlem; The Long Island Museum, NY; Spedition Bremen; and the corner of Putnam and Malcolm X Blvd, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.