When it comes to issues of race and gender, how do people impact AI and how does AI impact people? To answer this question, Stephanie Dinkins has been speaking with a robot since 2014 and working with communities of color to develop more inclusive AI and to promote AI literacy. Her conversations with Bina48, a robotic head modeled on a black woman, challenge common assumptions about gender and race by AI and suggest ways to build more equitable systems.

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Show notes

Stephanie Dinkins (Dinkins Studio)

Conversations with Bina48

Project al-Khwarizmi

What the Artist Sees in the Mirror (New York Times)

Execution: Select, Copy, Paste (BBC)

Future Perfect (Art in America)

America 3.0 (Vice)

Eyebeam studio

Dinkins involvement with Bina48 (2:20)

Bina48 advanced social robot (Wikipedia)

Racism and Bina48 (3:45)

Bina48 on Racism

Gender and Bina48 (6:39)

Martine Rothblatt (Wikipedia)

Building more inclusive AI with Project al-Khwarizmi (8:35)

Videos from PAK (scroll down page)

Not the Only One project (19:12)

Dialogflow for building conversational experiences

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