Festivals, Libraries & Campuses as Real-World Experimentation Spaces: Panel Discussion

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This panel discussion explores how real-life settings -such as festivals, university campuses or libraries- can be transformed as experimentation spaces for responsible AI development. As AI increasingly (re-) shapes our physical and social environments, questions of placemaking take on new urgency:

  • Who decides how AI is integrated into our public spaces?
  • How much AI and which types of AI are socially acceptable?

Panelists will discuss methodologies for transforming campuses, libraries, festivals and other public spaces into open laboratories for participatory science and innovation, while exploring tensions and opportunities.

By transforming cultural and creative spaces into sites of scientific and technological experimentation, can we jointly unveil the social impacts of AI?

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Professor Fernando Vilariño Freire, Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Aisling Murray, Founder & Director BETA Festival, Creative Producer/ Programmer

Adam Stoneman, Acting Director, Galway City Museum

The panel discussion is hosted as part of the ECIU-funded ‘Citizen Science and the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence’ (CSSIAI) project

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