"When you train algorithms on limited data, what you get is holes in the results." We are at the start of an epoch that will change everything, Stephanie Dinkins says about AI. But does the robots that we create represent everyone? In order to avoid problematic machine bias, she asks us developers to bring different people to the table. Developers shouldn't be afraid to rock the boat and encourage a little discomfort in the workplace.

Community, craft, and the vernacular in artificially intelligent systems take the position that everyone participating in society is an expert in our experiences within the community infrastructures, which inform the makeup of robotic entities. Though we may not be familiar with the jargon used in specialized professional contexts, we share the vernacular of who we are as people and communities and the intimate sense that we are being learned. We understand that our data and collaboration is valuable, and our ability to successfully cooperate with the robotic systems proliferating around is well served by the creation of qualitatively informed systems that understand and perhaps even share the aims and values of the humans they work with. Using her art practice, which interrogates a humanoid robot and seeks to create culturally specific voice interactive entities as a case in point, Dinkins examines how interactions between humans and robots are reshaping human-robot and human-human relationships and interactions. She argues communities on the margins of tech production, code, and the institutions creating the future must work to upend, circumvent, or reinvent the algorithmic systems increasingly controlling the world, including robotics, that maintain us.

Stanford's new Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), an interdisciplinary, global hub for artificial intelligence thinkers, learners, researchers, developers, builders and users, is co-hosting its first HAI resident artist. The residency is a collaboration with Sundance Institute's New Frontier Lab Programs (NFLP), and co-hosts on campus are the Office of the Vice President for the Arts (VPA) and the Stanford Humanities Center. Transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins pictured with an earlier AI project, the social robot Bina48. Transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins will be on campus for a residency in the fall, developing her project Not the Only One, a multigenerational memoir of one black American family told from the "mind" of an artificial intelligence entity with an evolving intellect. She will return in April 2020 for a convening of thought-leaders exploring artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning and culture.