Can we imagine a fair AI, and if so what parts need re-imagining? Can collective governance be a way to build more supportive structures for AI projects?
Image credit: UK Choral Dataset Journey for The Call, 2024. Image courtesy of Serpentine.
Current concerns about AI and creativity often revolve around training data, which is scraped and extracted from the internet to train AI models. This may empower developers but often overwrites the interests of data creators.
However, data grows in value when joined and combined. Likewise, the power of voice grows in an ensemble. The current Serpentine exhibition 'The Call' by artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst in collaboration with 15 choirs from across the UK explores the parallels between collective voice and collective data, in this case the choir recordings.
This event will present and introduce the data trust experiment run with the choirs. In discussion with Serpentine’s curators, the artists, and the data intermediary, we will explore how the making of the exhibition, including the data trust experiment, envisioned protocols and materials for the creation of AI models differently.
Panel speakers:
Jennifer Ding, senior researcher (Alan Turing Institute)
Mat Dryhurst, artist (online participant)
Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead Serpentine Arts Technologies
Eva Jäger, Arts Tech Curator
Aidan Peppin, Policy & Responsible AI Lead Cohere for AI Research Lab.
Chair: Mercedes Bunz, Professor in Digital Culture and Society, King’s College London.
The event is hosted by Science Gallery London at King’s College London and supported by BRAID, an AHRC funded programme dedicated to integrating Arts and Humanities research more fully into the Responsible AI ecosystem, as well as bridging the divides between academic, industry, policy and regulatory work on responsible AI.
Speaker information:
Jennifer Ding is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute focused on open & participatory AI and the co-founder of London Data Week, a citywide festival of data. She is the Data Intermediary on the Choral Data Trust Experiment.
Mat Dryhurst is a British artist, musician, and technological researcher based in Berlin. He develops projects in music and art, often together with Holly Herndon, that explore the creative potential and ethics of creating content using emerging technologies, such as AI.
Victoria Ivanova is R&D Strategic Lead, Serpentine's Arts Technologies. She leads the Serpentine’s Future Art Ecosystems project that incubates new infrastructural prototypes at the intersection of culture, technology and society.
Eva Jäger is Arts Technologies Curator, Serpentine Galleries and co-lead of the Creative AI Lab. Eva commissions artists working with advanced technologies and collaborate in teams designing novel approaches, workflows and philosophies of emerging tech.
Aidan Peppin is the Policy and Responsible AI Lead at Cohere For AI, the non-profit research lab of Canadian AI model developer, Cohere. Previously he coordinated the Program for the AI Fringe events around the Bletchley AI Safety Summit and led the Public Participation and Research team at the Ada Lovelace Institute. He has an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics.
Mercedes Bunz is Professor in Digital Cultures and Society, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London and co-lead of the Creative AI Lab.
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