AI & CULTURAL SYMPOSIUM, MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

AI & CULTURE SYMPOSIUM, MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

In order to understand the space of AI and storytelling, we decided to bring experts together to share knowledge. On April 23, 2018, some 50 thought leaders joined a day-long Artificial Intelligence and Culture Symposium at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. We reached another 300,000 through the #AICulture hashtag on Twitter and Instagram.

Representatives from the United Nations, the Australian Aid program’s innovationXchange, Management Systems International, as well as renowned machine learning experts, educators, journalists, technologists, and business leaders from across the US and Mexico participated in the symposium to engage in the latest research on AI as a tool for culturally rich storytelling.

Our premise was clear: Inclusive data in the form of text or voice can amplify stories told by underprivileged and underrepresented communities. As we led the symposium, we talked about how the effective fusion of AI with cultural storytelling will help diminish bias in algorithmic identification and train AI software to be much more inclusive. Symposium attendees also had a group conversation about the need for some kind of “Declaration of Citizen, Machine, and Culture” that considered the rights and responsibilities of human beings in the digital universe. The final workshop looked at the future of journalism as intelligent narrative that is truthful and inclusive and gives voice to the underrepresented.

FURTHER READING

You can read our full IVOW report from the Baltimore AI and Culture summit here.