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Whose AI? For whose interests? Tobi Adéwùnmí

Event Type
Informational
Sponsor
The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning
Location
Armory room 156 and online via Zoom
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Jul 1, 2025   2:00 - 3:00 pm  
Speaker
Olúwatóbilóba ('Tobi) Adéwùnmí
Contact
Przemek Bosak
E-Mail
pbosak2@illinois.edu

Whose AI? For whose interests? What Afro-futurist animation can teach us about decolonizing AI for Black worlds This session will attempt to approach AI and AI dystopia from the margins. By centering Black epistemologies and Afro-futurist aesthetics in two recent animation - Iwaju (Disney, 2024) and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Animation Works, 2024), I call for a more inclusive design thinking in developing and branding AI technologies for people of color, especially within predominantly White universities and urban ecologies.

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