​Join the upcoming conversation session where our Ancestral AI research lead Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes talks with Monique Lemos and Thiago Britto on Integrating Wisdom Across Time.

​ABOUT THE SESSION

​How ancestral wisdom passed down through generations can shape the future of artificial intelligence? And how to create technologies that honor and integrate different temporal perspectives? If we consider ourselves as the first generation with such technological power in our hands, what kind of ancestors of the future will we be? 

​Ancestral AI posits a transformative approach to technology, advocating for an integration of time-honored wisdom with modern AI development. By embracing the deep insights of our ancestors, this initiative aims to steer the evolution of technology toward a more sustainable and harmonious future, ensuring that advancements are not only technically sound but also ethically grounded.

​This webinar is tailored for AI professionals, researchers, cultural theorists, and anyone interested in how technology intersects with ethical, social, and cultural dimensions. To learn more about how ancient wisdom can revolutionize technological advancements and to hear firsthand from our esteemed speakers about their innovative approaches to AI, make sure to register.

​ABOUT SLOW AI PROJECT

​​​In this project, we will interrogate and publish critical AI discourse in a format that makes sense to us and our practices, namely zines and creative technology installations. Inspired by the counter-movements of slow fashion and slow food, this project will investigate three emerging AI counter-narratives –Small AI 🐜, Ancestral AI 🐚, and Esoteric AI 🔮 – and explore what it might look like to incorporate them in our everyday practice.

​​​At project end we will publish an anthology – a hot compost pile of miro boards, zines, and art that we hope sparks new ways to think and talk about AI.

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​🐚 ANCESTRAL AI w/ GUSTAVO: How AI affect our relationship with time?

​Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes (Gust) is a Brazilian researcher specializing in temporalities, the narratives, and systems that influence our perception of time. Based in Amsterdam, he leads Torus Company and Temporality Lab, focusing on multiple temporalities from a decolonial perspective with a transdisciplinary global community. Since moving to Europe in 2017, he's been active in the Time Machine Organization and coordinates a cultural heritage and education project at the University of Jena, Germany. He's also studying for a Master's degree in Barcelona at ELISAVA University and collaborates with the Internet Age Media – IAM community to study how AI affects time perception. Gust's work has impacted various fields, collaborating with leading companies like Globo, Google, Netflix, Natura, Nubank, Santander, and Spotify. His research covers topics like social change, ancestrality, speculative design, and decoloniality, providing insight into time's impact on human experience and inspiring a rethinking of our relationship with time.

As Research Lead for Ancestral AI, Gustavo highlights that in the realm of technology, especially in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, invoking the concept of ancestrality means proposing a framework that is deeply informed by these time-tested insights and values. Ancestral AI seeks to harness this reservoir of knowledge to guide the development of future technologies, ensuring they are aligned with the principles of ecological balance, social equity, and cultural continuity. This approach not only enriches modern technological practices but also roots them in a broader, more holistic understanding of what it means to advance humanely and sustainably. With this foundation in mind, Ancestral AI emerges as a transformative strategy that bridges the wisdom of the past with the innovations of the future, fostering technologies that respect and enhance the human condition across temporal and cultural dimensions.

​​🧚 GUEST: MONIQUE LEMOS: How AI is Killing Black People 

​Monique Lemos is the founder and CEO of topo, a plural futures lab & consultancy. She is also an Anthropologist, Cultural Strategist, Tech and Creative Researcher, and Responsible AI Strategist. Being a digital nomad as a way to continually expand her cultural repertoire by always looking for global trends and insights, Monique is experienced in Production and Cultural Strategy, also graduated in Cinema, Sociology and Politics, Digital Anthropology and is now a master's student in Design for Responsible AI at Elisava, School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona, researching and interested in topics such as human-machine relationship, Black imaginaries, necropolitics, decolonialities.

Monique is the author of the ongoing work "HOW AI IS KILLING BLACK IMAGINARIES: updates on the concept of Necropolitics and tools for an anti-racist data learning future". The work approaches how AI is killing Black people through a lack of Black imaginary scenarios on generative AI and bringing new layers to the necropolitics concept (Mbembe, 2003). A creative approach to mitigate some damage of racism by creating anti-racist awareness and imagining radical Black futures.

​​🧚‍♂️ GUEST: THIAGO BRITTO: The Preservation of Black Memories 

​Thiago Britto is an Afro-Brazilian artist, graduated from the International Academy of Cinema in Rio de Janeiro as a Director of Photography for Cinema. With 17 years of experience, he has transitioned through photography, exploring documentary and music photography, collaborating with prominent figures in Brazilian music such as Milton Nascimento, Leci Brandão, Criolo, Anita, among others. His work has been recognized in communication channels such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Elle Magazine, Prazzle, TV Cultura, and Multishow.

Currently, Thiago focuses on creating contemporary images using artificial intelligence. He seeks to apply these new technologies in socially relevant ways, aiming to contribute to a better preservation of black memory in Brazil. His first research project, titled "Oye Omi," reinterprets the foundations of African religious traditions regarding the trafficking of black bodies across the Atlantic. This innovative approach aims to provide a less Westernized view of the past, using imagery tools for a broader and more inclusive perception. Thiago's research was exhibited at the largest photography festival in Latin America, being one of the first to occupy an exhibition space within the creation of images using artificial intelligence in a photographic context.

​ABOUT AIxDESIGN

​​​AIxDESIGN (AIxD) is a global community of designers, researchers, creative technologists, and activists using AI in pursuit of creativity, justice and joy and living lab exploring participatory, slow, and more-than-corporate AI. Learn more at aixdesign.co.