Week 1: Design, AI, and Society

Schedule

Morning

  • Getting acquainted
  • Course overview
  • This week’s readings (Bowles, 2020; Hill, 2019)
  • Workshop: Case Study Analysis

Afternoon

  • Guest Lecture: Doing AI in Amsterdam
  • Workshop: Design Debrief
  • Q&A

Homework

Readings

  • Crawford, K., & Paglen, T. (2019, September 19). Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets. Excavating AI. https://excavating.ai
  • Gebru, T., Morgenstern, J., Vecchione, B., Vaughan, J. W., Wallach, H., Daumé III, H., & Crawford, K. (2020). Datasheets for Datasets. arXiv:1803.09010 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010

Activities

  • Collect street-level images for inspiration

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