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nushin https://nushinyazdani.com nushin Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:44:10 +0000 https://nushinyazdani.com en Main https://nushinyazdani.com/Main Fri, 19 Oct 2018 01:56:40 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/Main Hi! I’m Nushin. I work on projects at the intersection of design, artificial intelligence & justice                 I do interaction & transformation design as well as art, I lecture at universities, facilitate workshops and curate community events at the intersection of art, tech and society. Dreaming Beyond AI Main https://nushinyazdani.com/Dreaming-Beyond-AI-Main Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:44:10 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/Dreaming-Beyond-AI-Main Web Platform & Community          Dreaming Beyond AI  <img width="1000" height="542" width_o="1000" height_o="542" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3756473ba17202ce3b05d30d0b66aa497c2a35bc75537a765383c23f9bc42946/Bildschirmfoto-2021-11-30-um-01.12.28.png" data-mid="126234942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3756473ba17202ce3b05d30d0b66aa497c2a35bc75537a765383c23f9bc42946/Bildschirmfoto-2021-11-30-um-01.12.28.png" /> Dreaming Beyond AI is a space for critical and constructive knowledge, visionary fiction and speculative art, and community organizing around Artificial Intelligence. Read more... Into the Pluriverse Main https://nushinyazdani.com/Into-the-Pluriverse-Main Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:33:08 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/Into-the-Pluriverse-Main Virtual Reality Game        Into the Pluriverse Realness exists on many levels and through different perspectives and temporalities. What is real about an entire continent, a country, or a person? With Into the Pluriverse, we enter through a wormhole into seven different lives, different places, and different perspectives. One by one we encounter... Read more... Wie Maschinen diskriminieren Main https://nushinyazdani.com/Wie-Maschinen-diskriminieren-Main Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:24:04 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/Wie-Maschinen-diskriminieren-Main Video on Facial Recognition  & the Matrix of Domination          Wie Maschinen diskriminieren Wie Maschinen diskriminieren. Facial Recognition & die Matrix of Domination. Video by Nushin Yazdani & José Rojas. Read more... Future Tense AI from the margins Main https://nushinyazdani.com/Future-Tense-AI-from-the-margins-Main Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:32:53 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/Future-Tense-AI-from-the-margins-Main Poetic Lecture        Future Tense: AI from the margins What is it like to navigate a world that was designed without you? How does it feel to dodge tools that exclude, victimize, or mis-classify you? Today's artificial intelligence is being applied to real life. And the "norms" it is creating perpetuate a grossly unfair system. This is AI, as seen from the margins. This is Future Tense. Read more... Digital Identities Feminist Futures Main https://nushinyazdani.com/Digital-Identities-Feminist-Futures-Main Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:59:30 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/Digital-Identities-Feminist-Futures-Main Zine first presented at CTRL Z zine fair         Digital Identities Feminist Futures <img width="2241" height="1400" width_o="2241" height_o="1400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8773cb243fd6d2a83fa165e5a79b4f899cbdb7fe7c7b63167649b5e4d938c311/Zine.jpg" data-mid="59775473" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8773cb243fd6d2a83fa165e5a79b4f899cbdb7fe7c7b63167649b5e4d938c311/Zine.jpg" /> Our zine aims at creating a discourse about the influence of technology on our identities. We want to explore how societies change their notion of identity, of bodies and the self through the digital. Looking at current and evolving technologies such as AR and VR, as well as algorithmic decision-making and other forms of data analysis, we put systems in question that are currently used in discriminating ways, or could be in the future, and propose thoughts on the intersectional feminist futures we want to see and make happen. It is important to us to look at these topics from perspectives that allow us to spark discussions and create trains of thought outside of the margins drawn by patriarchy, racism and capitalism. We are writing from our points of views as people of the margins. Our zine will be a mixture of essayist thought, digital renderings, comic style ideas and artistic drawings. Read more... Feminist AI Ethics Toolkit https://nushinyazdani.com/Feminist-AI-Ethics-Toolkit-1 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:26:21 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/Feminist-AI-Ethics-Toolkit-1 Bachelor Thesis Project – Design Futures Workshop         Feminist AI Ethics Toolkit <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/713fe53a99e9f66233306d96c14e7ee8cfc2b6551a2c80ef30e4ea5164f51425/IMG_5587.JPG" data-mid="39104229" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/713fe53a99e9f66233306d96c14e7ee8cfc2b6551a2c80ef30e4ea5164f51425/IMG_5587.JPG" /> How do we create a framework for the creation process of algorithmic decision-making tools that adequately considers ethical concerns, consequences, and causalities? This design futures workshop, part of and inspired by the Feminist AI Ethics approach, aims to raise awareness and inspire conversations about the direct and secondary consequences of AI tools. Based on utopian and dystopian scenarios and prompts about what might happen with AI technologies in possible futures, participants can reflect and create concepts for actionable counter mechanisms together. Read more... MachineBias https://nushinyazdani.com/MachineBias Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:18:05 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/MachineBias Machine Learning Generated Imagery        Machine Bias <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8921d1f7ccf00755c790e92b457ac10a99fc554dcf8a417c1b100a05b16e6c14/test_mugshots.png" data-mid="39103760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8921d1f7ccf00755c790e92b457ac10a99fc554dcf8a417c1b100a05b16e6c14/test_mugshots.png" /> I generated future prisoners by training a machine learning model (GAN) on thousands of photographs of US inmates, as a metaphor and visualization of predictive policing systems. In more and more countries predictive policing and pretrial risk assessment decisions are handed over to machines and algorithms. How does a machine decide in which district crime is likely to happen, or which convict will be reoffending in the future? Any machine learning decision is based on massive amounts of data transformed into probabilities – but is that data only creating more of the same? Read more... Let's get ethical! https://nushinyazdani.com/Let-s-get-ethical-1 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:13:22 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/Let-s-get-ethical-1 An Exploration of Bias in Machine Learning – Bachelor Thesis Book.         Let’s get ethical! <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aadacf174a2f2de3270897a9de3b71d33a2cb4e4b227535c0852af9ddca63701/IMG_5598.JPG" data-mid="39103958" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aadacf174a2f2de3270897a9de3b71d33a2cb4e4b227535c0852af9ddca63701/IMG_5598.JPG" /> The rapid rise of algorithm-based processes and systems in various parts of society and our everyday life demand that we critically consider their social impacts at all levels and early on. Products and services driven by AI technology provide the opportunity to support and enhance human capabilities and to relieve us of annoying repetitive work. We created artificially intelligent machines to make fair and automated decisions on humans – only to find that their decisions perpetuate our societies’ structural discrimination, oppression and injustice.If we want to use algorithmic based technologies we must attempt to uncover latent social impacts early on, rather than after foundations have been laid. Many design decisions made by software engineers are very hard to undo or take back. Once they have reached a critical mass and other systems are built on top of them, they often remain integrated in future systems. Read more... About https://nushinyazdani.com/About Fri, 19 Oct 2018 01:56:39 +0000 nushin https://nushinyazdani.com/About           Nushin Yazdani is a transformation designer, artist and AI design researcher. She works at the intersection of machine learning, design justice and intersectional feminist practices, and writes about the systems of oppression of the present and the possibilities of just and free futures. Nushin is the co-founder of the AI research, advocacy and art platform Dreaming Beyond AI. At Superrr Lab, Nushin works as a design researcher and project manager on creating feminist tech policies. With her collective dgtl fmnsm, she curates and organizes community events at the intersection of technology, art and design. Nushin has been lecturing at different universities, is a Landecker Democracy Fellow and a member of the Design Justice Network. She has been selected as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021 and is a board member of the ‘Advancing Data Justice’ advisory board by the Alan Turing Institute and Global Partnership on AI. <img width="754" height="570" width_o="754" height_o="570" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/337ec8ad8cf87a975f4dafb0acd6e51391c760fa9bb497ebf64610075c9832f6/Nushin.png" data-mid="119336812" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/754/i/337ec8ad8cf87a975f4dafb0acd6e51391c760fa9bb497ebf64610075c9832f6/Nushin.png" />