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AI experience and usability in academia

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Lightening talk 1 Genovefa Kefalidou AI experience and usability in academia copy

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AI and the global majority: Human inclusion gap

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Lightening talk 2  Aanya Niaz AI & Global Majority

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The digitalisation of writing using GenAI: Supporting inclusivity and diversity

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Lightening talk 3 Skye Zhao AI & disability inclusion

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Genovefa called AI "an agent" - that makes me wonder whether and to what extent AI 'has agency' and how to define that...

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Not specifically on participatory and collaborative research but this recent programme of work may be of wider interest to colleagues.

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JRF is looking at the potential for AI to generate public good. We’ll be platforming some inspiring thinkers while positioning ourselves as an inquisitive explorer of this topic.

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I'm pitching some participatory research that has an AI participant and would welcome some discussion. There's a bit of literature emerging, e.g.

Gibson, A. F., & Beattie, A. (2024). More or less than human? Evaluating the role of AI-as-participant in online qualitative research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 21(2), 175–199. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2024.2311427

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A little cheeky :) but some work around using better images of AI in our work that move away from white robots and blue brains that better capture what AI is https://betterimagesofai.org/

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What's the problem with current tropes?

Abstract, futuristic or science-fiction-inspired images of AI hinder the understanding of the technology's already significant societal and environmental impacts.

Images relating machine intelligence to human intelligence set unrealistic expectations and misstate the capabilities of AI.

Images representing AI as sentient robots mask the accountability of the humans actually developing the technology, and can suggest the presence of robots where there are none.

Such images potentially sow fear, and research shows they can be laden with historical assumptions about gender, ethnicity and religion.

However, finding alternatives can be difficult! That's why we, a non-profit collaboration, are researching, creating, curating and providing Better Images of AI.

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We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as inspiration for more helpful and diverse representations of AI.

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Environmental impact of genAI particularly

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Environmental impact of genAI particularly

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Just to throw this in there as well around the huge environmental impact. Microsoft recently bought a nuclear power station in the US to ensure access to energy moving forward https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/

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Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile Island

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A once-shuttered nuclear plant could soon return to the grid.