AI systems are trained on publicly available data including web sources, and this means data traces citizen-users have left and leave behind when roaming digital services. Given that the intelligence of AI system results from this distributed knowledge, how can we think the collective aspect in data and AI systems — as citizens, as regulators, as government? Taking a recent Data Trust experiment conducted in the UK as its point of departure, this talk explores in what ways data – so far rightly problematised regarding individual rights and privacy – also need to be understood regarding their relational, collective value and explores what comes into view from a democratic take on AI as collective intelligence.
Dr. Mercedes Bunz is Professor in Digital Culture and Society at King’s College London, and Co-Founder of the Creative AI Lab, a collaboration with Serpentine Galleries. Her research explores the calculation of meaning initiated through machine learning and its consequences.
More events with Dr. Mercedes Bunz on November 12 and 14 in Cologne: https://ub.uni-koeln.de/kulturprogramm/dialogformate/dialog-2024/kuenstliche-intelligenz#c7262