Inspace and the Institute for Design Informatics are delighted to be partnering with BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) project who will commission five UK-based artists or artist groups to create artworks that explore new ways to think about today’s AI and the futures we want work in responsible AI to help us build.

All that is needed is a clear engagement with responsible AI; it is not required that AI technology be used in the art making process.

The aim of these commissions is to:

  1. encourage artists to enrich and expand the responsible AI ecosystem by making artworks that help us more wisely respond to present realities and near future horizons of AI
  2. demonstrate how art can critique and improve responsible AI tools, methods and approaches in creative and engaging ways
  3. inspire and empower members of the public to better understand, engage with and inform responsible AI development.
About BRAID

Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) works to enable the arts and humanities to enhance the development and uptake of responsible AI in the UK.

We want to empower the responsible AI community in the UK to maximise the benefits and minimise the risks that AI poses to our society and the environment. At a time when the use of AI is spreading at scale and at speed, this requires:

  • the building of public awareness, capability and confidence to engage and inform responsible AI, giving voice to individuals and groups that are currently underrepresented and disempowered
  • identifying and breaking down the structural barriers and divides that currently stand in the way of a healthy, connected and flourishing responsible AI ecosystem
  • improving or reimagining the ways we deliver responsible AI, centring notions of accountability, sustainability, answerability, resistance and public recourse.

Artists can provide necessary, vibrant, imaginative and creative visions for responsible AI that can help us to meet the above challenges.

These commissions are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and delivered by BRAID in partnership with Inspace at the Institute for Design Informatics, with support from Edinburgh Art Festival and Better Images of AI.

Images Credit: Image altered from original / Jazmin Morris & AI4Media / Better Images of AI / Braided Networks 1 / CC-BY 4.0

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