PAMM – Sept 8, 2017, Art Hack Data

Mapping and Quantifying Information Warfare in the Age of Big Data

In her talk, Desiree questions the promised future of “dataism”, the Ethics of Big Data and its lack of governance. Who are the new adversaries, custodians and beneficiaries in this invisible battlefield of storing, processing and analysing data? How do Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and AI light up new data? What do TayTweets, Baby Q, Little Bing and other AI social media chatbot experiments tell us? Can citizens, artists and societies interact meaningfully with the world of Big Data, especially in the minority of market-dominant players? How do we make sense of information warfare and create new digital habitats? As we are facing regulatory capture in current communications technologies coupled with the lack of algorithmic transparency and human understanding, what kind of public institutions and new thinking do we need?