ETHICS | SUZANNE KITE (Oglála Lakȟóta)
Artist and researcher Suzanne Kite presents her efforts developing ethical frameworks to build technology and work with machine learning in a ‘good way’ as lived through Lakȟóta ontology (i.e., the study of what it means to ‘be’ in Lakȟóta worlds).
Video Duration: 29 min 20 sec (clip begins 3:07, ends 32:27)
Total Time for Activity: 60 to 90 minutes
Suzanne Kite, "Critical Tech Talk: How to Build Anything Ethically with Dr. Suzanne Kite.’ Youtube, uploaded by University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 22 November 2023. Clip begins 3:07, ends 32:27, duration 29 min 20 sec.
Question
What are the considerations that Kite says are necessary to making something in a ‘good way’?
- How did she come up with them?
- List all ten and write some notes on each that will allow you to offer a basic explanation.
Reflection
Look at the considerations that you listed in response to the question above.
- Choose the three that you think are most important and prepare to discuss them with a friend or in a small group of classmates. They will share the three that they selected.
Question
What does Kite say about the terms ‘artificial’ and ‘intelligence’?
- What does she explain is given "the highest value" in her Oglála Lakȟóta community?
Reflection
How do you think that the values of Kite's relate to what she says about intelligence?
Question
Kite is part of a research project that she says has replaced the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ with a different phrase.
- What is the phrase and why did she and her collaborators select it? What three terms do they use to define it?
- What additional three terms do they use to describe how they align their work?
Reflection
Why is this change of phrase important?
- How can it assist in rethinking Artificial Intelligence?
Question
Kite provides a set of eleven questions that she says can help in establishing a “protocol stream” when working with Artificial Intelligence (or anything else being made and introduced into the world).
- Pause the video and take notes on the questions.
Reflection
After listing the eleven questions in response to the question above, imagine a protocol stream for AI (or something else made and introduced into the world) that respond to them.