[Air-L] [Workshop CFP] Cultures of AI and AI for Culture

[Rida Qadri]

Hello,

We are accepting submissions for the virtual NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on
Cultures of AI and AI for Culture to be held on December 9. This is a
cross-disciplinary workshop with experts in AI/ML and social sciences
discussing how AI influences culture and how culture influences AI.  More
details at our workshop website: https://ai-cultures.github.io/



Call for position papers:

We are looking for 2-3 page position papers that *center a provocation on
how cultures shape AI design and development or how AI tools shape cultural
consumption/production.* These provocations can be theoretical,
methodological, technical, exploratory, or empirical. This workshop is
meant to be inter-disciplinary so we welcome submissions of social and
technical papers from scholars of diverse theoretical backgrounds including
but not limited to Machine Learning, Computer Science, Anthropology,
Sociology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Media Studies.  That said,
please make sure your papers are understandable to a broad,
multidisciplinary audience. Accepted submissions will be non-archival and
will not be part of published proceedings or considered a refereed
publication.  Deadline: September 22, 2022



Themes include but are not limited to:


   1.

   Dominant cultures that shape broader AI research and development
   2.

   Cultural assumptions encoded in design decisions of tools like
   text-to-image models, music production technologies, recommender systems,
   and language technologies
   3.

   Performance of AI technologies in various cultural contexts (e.g.
   translation systems)
   4.

   Harms of deploying culturally inappropriate AI systems in different
   global cultural contexts
   5.

   Disciplinary assumptions that influence technical aspects of machine
   learning research
   6.

   Impact on artists and communities as they use AI for generation,
   production, and distribution of cultural content
   7.

   Current or expected changes in macro-level cultural trends due to AI


We welcome papers focusing on the relationship between culture and social
and technical aspects of AI design and development including but not
limited to:


   1.

   Datasets and training corpora
   2.

   Problem formulation
   3.

   Imagination of solutions
   4.

   Optimization objectives
   5.

   Evaluation metrics
   6.

   Research and deployment organization
   7.

   Other design decisions (e.g. hardware, model parameters)


We take an expansive definition of culture including but not limited to:


   1.

   Socio-cultural and geographical context
   2.

   Pedagogical/disciplinary cultures
   3.

   Institutional cultures
   4.

   Creative culture
   5.

   Religion
   6.

   Broader tech ecosystem


For questions please get in touch with us at: aicultures2022 at gmail.com

Deadline: September 22, 2022



Organizers

Rida Qadri (Google)

Fernando Diaz (Google)

Alex Hanna (DAIR)

Nick Seaver (Tufts)

Morgan Scheuerman (UC Boulder)