Conversations in AI is a production of the East-West Center's Humane AI Initiative (HAI). In this inaugural episode, Dr. Emilie Parry and Dr. Andre Uhl come on the show to talk about their work in the The Big Island of Hawaii and also discuss two upcoming events they will be holding concerning the intersection of forward looking environmental plus local community engagement and frontier technology.

August 4th: “Ecologies and Artificial Intelligence: When TECH Meets TEK (traditional ecological knowledge)"

August 14 - 15: "TECH meets TEK Hackathon." You can find more information or get in touch through the HAI website. 

https://www.eastwestcenter.org/professional-development/humane-ai-initiative/humane-artificial-intelligence-hai-summer-retreat-

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Conversations on AI - Episode 0

Conversations in AI is a production of the East-West Center's Humane AI Initiative (HAI). In episode 1, Dr. Daniel White graciously agreed to come on the show to talk about his work in the UK and his research primarily on Japanese AI and robotics as a sociocultural anthropologist.

Dr. Daniel White is a visiting scholar in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD in anthropology from Rice University and holds MA degrees in Japanese literature and international relations. Co-organizing an ethnographic research project called Model Emotion, he works across disciplines with anthropologists, psychologists, computer scientists and robotics engineers to trace and critique how theoretical models of emotion are built into machines with the capacity to evoke, read or even in a philosophical sense ‘have’ emotion in ways that foster care and wellbeing. His publications, podcasts, and other projects document how different cultural imaginaries, largely from Japan, are shaping diverse futures for artificial intelligence and can be found at www.modelemotion.org.

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