Helping AI Scientists create systems ethically

While at IBM Research, I began working with ethnographers and AI scientists to untangle various AI services in effort to expose their inner workings and develop guidelines around how to both build and utilize them ethically. Since moving on, my inquiries in this space have continued.

Experiments

Nostalgia
Art Research
If AI will ultimately be a reflection of ourselves, how can it understand emotions we can’t describe to one another?
Vibes
Art Research
What's the overall vibe of your browsing activity? A commentary on both doomscrolling culture as well as the advancements and perceived accuracy of emerging developments in affective computing.
Fail Engine
Art Research
What if computers could learn one of our strangest emotions: the tendency to laugh at others' misfortune?

Publications

Co-designing AI Futures: Integrating AI Ethics, Social Computing, and Design
Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) 2019
PD Manifesto for AI Futures
Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2018
Nostalgia: a Human-machine Transliteration
IEEE VisArts Program (VISAP) 2018

Presentations

WHY AI Research Needs Art
TED