Women Reclaiming AI (25 October)
Friday 25th October, 10am – 1pm
Women Reclaiming AI invites you to take part in a workshop designing an alternative AI Voice Assistant created by a growing community of self-identifying women (trans, intersex and cis) and all nonbinary, agender and gender variant people.
The workshop will create an AI assistant that better reflects an intersectional perspective. The workshop will provide you with basic skills to create an AI voice assistant in Dialogflow (a development platform for conversational systems) and a space to facilitate talking, sharing and listening.
By taking part in the workshop you become part of the expanding Women Reclaiming AI activist art-work and collaborative community – a symbol of collective action and protest.
This workshop is pay what you decide and open to all women (trans, intersex and cis) and all nonbinary, agender and gender variant people.
PLEASE NOTE: No previous experience of coding is required but participants are asked to bring a laptop if they have access to one.
About Women Reclaiming AI
Woman Reclaiming AI (WRAI) is an expanding activist art-work, presented as a feminist AI voice assistant, programmed through participatory workshops by a growing community of self-identifying women. Through creating a platform for collective writing and editing the project co-creates an AI that challenges gender roles. WRAI is a response to the pervasive depiction of AI voice assistants gendered as women, subordinate and serving. Designed by development teams which lack diversity these systems are embedded with unrepresentative world-views and stereotyping which reinforce traditional gender roles.
This project is created by SWCTN Fellows Coral Manton and Birgitte Aga in collaboration with an ever evolving community of self-identifying women.
Tickets: pay what you decide
This event forms part of the South West Creative Technology Network Talent Development programme. All events within this programme are run on a pay what you decide basis. This means that it is you, not us, who makes the call about how much the event will cost you. Will it be £5? £25? £50? What is the experience worth to you?
Crucially, it also means that if you’d love to come but investing in skills development at the moment just isn’t possible, you can come along for free.
Once we’ve covered our costs, your payment will go straight back into the scheme, allowing us to programme more talent development work for people like you. We are determined to ensure that anyone can access skills development, and so we are asking you, our audience, to pay it forward if you can.
For transparency, to cover our costs for this event the average ticket price would be around £35. Please bear in mind that for every £5 you donate, around £1 will go towards booking fees and VAT.
