Amelia Winger-Bearskin - Using Empathy to Create Responsible Technology

Conversations on Applied AI

The conversation this week is with Amelia Winger-Bearskin. Amelia innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment. She's a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She's a 2019-2020 Mozilla Foundation Open Web Fellow in partnership with MIT Open Doc Lab, and MIT's Co-Creation Studio working on ethics and values-driven software development toolkit, among many other accomplishments. In 2019. She was an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama's world headquarters for the summit on fostering universal ethics and compassion. In 2018, she was awarded a MacArthur and Sundance Institute fellowship for her 360 Video immersive installation in collaboration with the artist Wendy Red Star. She holds a bachelor's degree in art and visual technologies from George Mason University, a master's degree in transmedia from the University of Texas at Austin, and MPS and ITP from New York University.

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Resources and Topics Mentioned in this Episode

• StudioAmelia.com
• Digital Worlds Institute
• MIT Open Doc Lab
• MIT's Co-Creation Studio
• Wendy Red Star
• Seneca-Cayuga Nation
• Eastman School of Music
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
• Ethical Source
• AlphaGo
• Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
• Stack Overflow
• No-Funding.com

Enjoy!

Your host,
Justin Grammens