[Air-L] Invitation | "Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity" public panels (Oct 23 & 24)

[Jess Reia]

Dear colleagues,



We invite you to join us next week for two public panels at the
"Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity" workshop that
takes place on October 23 and 24, 12:00 pm EDT, on Zoom and at the Bond
House on our main campus in Charlottesville, VA.


The two-day event will explore the dynamics of power and trust, in
technology and governments, from perspectives not always included in the
deployment, regulation and policies centered on artificial intelligence. We
will discuss the possibilities to reimagine (or contain) AI from the
margins, questioning the narrative of its inescapability and what public
interest AI systems might look like -- and if such systems are even
possible.


The workshop will cover topics such as creativity, heritage, the right to
the city and cultural policy on the first day, and environmental justice,
climate crisis and the materiality of big data on the second day. One of
the main outcomes of this conversation will be an open access publication
featuring short essays from all participants that will be available in
English and Spanish.



The panels are free and open to the public but require registration for
either in-person or remote participation:
https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/reimagining-ai-environmental-justice-and-creativity.



PROGRAM



OCT 23, 12:00 PM EDT | WHEN AI MEETS CULTURAL POLICY, HERITAGE, AND
CREATIVITY

Blair Attard-Frost, *University of Toronto*

Raheem Manning, *Philadelphia's Director of Nighttime Economy*

Martina Massari, *University of Bologna*

Mark Olson, *Duke University*

Will Straw, *McGill University*



OCT 24, 12:00 PM EDT | THE ROLE OF AI IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Mehan Jayasuriya, *Mozilla Foundation*

Tamara Kneese, *AIM Lab*
*at Data and Society Research Institute*

Anne Pasek, *Trent University*

Damien P. Williams, *UNC-Charlotte*


The workshop is co-organized by Jess Reia, MC Forelle and Yingchong Wang
and co-sponsored by UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy Lab,
Environmental Institute and School of Data Science.



*Jess Reia, Ph.D.  (they/them)*
Assistant Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia
reia at virginia.edu | https://datascience.virginia.edu/

2024 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Global Public Policy
<https://igpp.fudan.edu.cn/igppen/main.htm>, Fudan University
2024-2025 Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology
<https://cdt.org/>
Faculty-lead, Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, UVA Karsh Institute
<https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/>