World Interaction Design Day is coming up soon! Join our ever so slightly belated celebration with Paul Pangaro the following day.
“Doors open” at 5:30, and the talk will start at 5:45.

About the Talk

“Bad AI” means artificial intelligence systems that sap our attention, warp our beliefs, and polarize our relationships. For example, “recommenders” bring us options: What to watch next on YouTube, what to read on Facebook, and even what to consume in search results. But are these valid choices that we would take on our own? As has been widely reported, these systems create problems for countless users every day.

This talk charts a path to alternatives. We can keep the power of digital computation at scale while swinging back to our analog, open-ended, socially-animated roots as human beings. We can revise today’s algorithms to enable novelty and choice, conversation and transparency, even as we continue using digital infrastructure.

This talk describes a new initiative with those values inside and with the goal of collecting as well as creating examples from art, media, performance, design, and software implementations. The result will be a catalog of design patterns, best practices, and working prototypes that can be adapted by designers, coder, and entrepreneurs. Together we can enrich the collective social fabric we need as humans in order to thrive and create.

Read more at tinyurl.com/newmacy-blog3.

About Paul

Paul Pangaro is Professor of the Practice in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and President of the American Society for Cybernetics. He is leading the #NewMacy initiative to respond to the pandemic of today’s AI algorithms, grounded in the traditions of Cybernetics, updated for the 21st-century context. His career spans startups, teaching, performance, and consulting. He has been designing interfaces in a range of media since his PhD in Cybernetics (Brunel UK) with Gordon Pask. His work can be found at pangaro.com.