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How are emerging technologies like artificial intelligence shaping our world and how we interact with one another? What do different demographics think about AI risk and a robot-filled future? And how can the average citizen contribute not only to the AI discussion, but AI's development?
On this month's podcast, Ariel spoke with Charlie Oliver and Randi Williams about how technology is reshaping our world, and how their new project, Mission AI, aims to broaden the conversation and include everyone's voice.
Charlie is the founder and CEO of the digital media strategy company Served Fresh Media, and she's also the founder of Tech 2025, which is a platform and community for people to learn about emerging technologies and discuss the implications of emerging tech on society. Randi is a doctoral student in the Personal Robotics Group at the MIT Media Lab. She wants to understand children's interactions with AI, and she wants to develop educational platforms that empower non-experts to develop their own AI systems.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
- How to inject diversity into the AI discussion
- The launch of Mission AI and bringing technologists and the general public together
- How children relate to AI systems, like Alexa
- Why the Internet and AI can seem like "great equalizers," but might not be
- How we can bridge gaps between the generations and between people with varying technical skills
Papers discussed in this episode include:
- Druga, S., Williams, R., Resnick, M., & Breazeal, C. (2017). “Hey Google, is it OK if I Eat You?”: Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction. Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGCHI Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference, ACM. [PDF]
- Stefania Druga, Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2018. How smart are the smart toys?: children and parents’ agent interaction and intelligence attribution. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 231-240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3202741. [PDF]
- Randi Williams, Christian Vazquez, Stefania Druga, Pattie Maes, Cynthia Breazeal. “My Doll Says It's OK: Voice-Enabled Toy Influences Children's Moral Decisions.” IDC. 2018
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