Anthropology Technology Conference 2019 at The Watershed in October -

You might think that anthropology and AI is an odd pairing. But in a 2017 article in WIRED, journalist James Temperton wrote, "For DeepMind to realise its ambition of cracking general intelligence, it needs an interdisciplinary approach to AI". As DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman explained in the same article, "We need to have in-house the very best anthropologists, sociologists…specialists on bias and discrimination in machine learning systems, working with both our researchers and applied software development teams so that they can give them feedback and guidance and introduce them to new modes of critical thinking". So in the spirit of cross-disciplinary collaboration, around 300 technologists working in AI (machine learning, data science, robotics, AI) and anthropologists and sociologists from around the world will come together at the Watershed on Bristol's historic harbourside to discuss human-centred AI. One of the keynotes, Dr Julien Cornebise, is from Element AI.