The EthicAI=LABS project is a collaboration between Goethe-Institut branches in Ankara, Athens, Bucharest, Zagreb, Sarajevo, and Sofia exploring the relationship between artificial intelligence and ethics. Through a series of open workshops and panel discussions, EthicAI=LABS aims to initiate a critical conversation on these topics across national and genre boundaries.
The three main cores of inquiry in the context of artificial intelligence here are linguistics on the one hand and art and media on the other. In between stands the field of human cognitive processing. Linguistic communication, prejudice, discrimination, creative algorithms as well as copyright, censorship, privacy, and political polarization are some of the main expressive tools through which the project tries to think the ethical space of interaction.
The groups
As a result of an open call for participation sent to the six countries of the region in February 2021, 18 young specialists were selected. They started working on the project topics in groups of three by researching artificial intelligence and ethics, as well as their intersection within the contexts of linguistics, creativity, forms of bias, and the media.
The group composed of participants Katerina Gkoutziouli, Stefania Budulan, and Ana-Maria Pleșca researched the role of data used to teach algorithms. They produced two chatbots with different types of databases and assessed the effect of their interaction. Their idea was to detect the biases...
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