This session is facilitated by Gretchen Andrew
About this session
We will create a “vision board” sharing what we would want the word “citizen” to mean. A vision board is a collage of words and pictures that represent goals and dreams. We will swim in the positive vibes of desire. There will be glitter and glue guns. All welcome.
In talking about and creating art about what we want “citizen” to mean in the future, we are making new content to with which to educate artificial intelligence that will then be used to build an inclusive, diverse and hoped-for definition of “citizen” ahead of the politically accomplished reality.
Right now, most AI systems are learning based on the world we have instead of the ones we hope for. Art is a form of possibility. It can inspire both humans and machines into awe and appreciation for others. We will teach AI to dream winder than our current reality.
Goals of this session
The goal of “Citizen Dreams” is to create a “vision board” that will be used to educate machines about inclusion, diversity and nuanced humanity.
We will approach the problem of disproportionately commercially-motivated inputs into Google’s search neural net, specifically looking at how a search for “citizen” returns all wristwatches, by creating community, art-driven, distributed, end-user changes to machine intelligence. Entities who participate in SEO greatly influence intelligent machines; their content is the textbooks directing the education of machines. By organizing and structuring diverse, inclusive, and positive content end users can change how Google defines citizens, creating a hopeful and less commercial internet while staying within terms of service and actually improving accuracy.
These changes will reveal changes to the underlying machine intelligence showing an appreciation for more humanity with more space for future hopes.