FIBER Festival 2024 | Context Programme Day 2 | Race and Machine Learning

Sat Jun 1 | de Brakke Grond In conversation with Ramon Amaro - Race and Machine Learning Speaker: Dr. Ramon Amaro Moderator: Abdo Hassan In this conversation, we will explore the complex relationship between race and machine learning and offer counter-strategies to current extractive AI systems and the culture(s) they originate from. Dr. Ramon Amaro discusses his recent book The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being (Sternberg, 2023) where he contemplates the abstruse nature of programming and mathematics and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy. From there, he extrapolates the alternative futures of generative AI and imagine speculative approaches to contemporary algorithmic practices. To this end, we can ask: How can we move towards a more generative way of living — with each other and productive technologies?