The Mozilla foundation is hosting a "Speculative Friction in Generative AI" event on Friday that will focus on AI in Healthcare. Should prove interesting if anyone else can join. Noreen ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bogdana Rakova <bogdana@mozillafoundation.org> Date: Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 3:13 PM Subject: [Speculative F(r)iction in Generative AI] More details To: Hi everyone, I'm thrilled to welcome you to the *Speculative F(r)iction in Generative AI* <https://speculativefriction.org/events> event coming up this Friday. Together with Tyler (T) Munyua we will facilitate an interactive and experimental session together with our panelists (see their bios below). To make the discussion more concrete and tangible we'll focus on the use of AI in healthcare and engage with a science fiction approach to interrogating the present state of *governing* such AI systems and how they might change the interactions between patients and clinicians. To allow ourselves to imagine and experience the consequences and implications of possible futures, we will play with a design fiction world where *every AI agent needs to have a social license <https://bobi-rakova.medium.com/the-ai-social-license-9d5ed4dc1815> in order to operate*. Excited to explore this speculative fiction artifact together on Friday and in the meantime ... I'm sending you this quick email to share an invitation for you to bring a wellness artifact to the event. Please think of any kind of physical object that you might interact with to boost your wellness. Panelists bios: - Gemma Petrie - Principal Researcher at Mozilla focused on the intersection of people, competition, and policy. Her research explores the dynamics of the internet ecosystem in order to advocate for technology that puts people first. Recent projects have explored how design frictions like browser choice screens can improve transparency, give people meaningful agency, and help them make choices that better align with their preferences. - Sophia Bazile - Futures Literacy and Foresight practitioner interested in capacity-building for transformative inner, organizational, and wider sociocultural change. Her approaches are multi-/trans-/interdisciplinary, rooted in decolonial praxis, and commitment to collective un/learning through perpetual experimentation. She has designed, curated, and convened inquiries around how technologies* facilitate reciprocal relationships between planetary beings—and the kinds of imagined and imposed relationships they amplify, disrupt, or inhibit. - Richmond Y. Wong - an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication. He directs the Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab where his research seeks to create social, cultural, and organizational environments that can support technologists and designers in ethical decision-making. This includes creating design approaches that propose alternate ways to consider human values, supporting worker and community-led actions, improving organizational ethics review practices, and understanding the role of law and policy. Recent projects include studying the technology workers’ organizational practices related to ethics, and creating design activities to help people talk through issues related to privacy and surveillance. Thank you! We are all thrilled and excited to connect during the panel and workshop on Friday. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. With kind regards, Bogdana (Bobi) -- Bogdana Rakova <https://bobirakova.com/> / *Senior Trustworthy AI Fellow, Mozilla Foundation* Experiments: terms-we-serve-with <https://termsweservewith.org/> / speculative f(r)iction <https://speculativefriction.org/> / ecosystemic AI <https://noteforms.com/forms/ecosystemic-ai-working-group-2ttywq?notionforms=1&utm_source=notionforms> -- Noreen Whysel nwhysel@gmail.com http://www.whysel.com