Join the Art, AI, Law & Society Resource Cluster!
Founded in 2017, Alliance Impact Artificial Intelligence (AIIA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the ethical, social, legal, political, economic and cultural implications of AI. Our approach aims to build a transdisciplinary bridge between art, AI and research-creation. Our programming highlights the important role of the arts in shaping AI to achieve a more equitable and sustainable social impact. With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts (2024) and its members, AIIA coordinates the international Art, AI, Law & Society Resource Cluster.
Who we are
The Art, AI, Law and Society Resource Cluster is a platform aimed at seizing the opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI in the arts and culture sector, while addressing their legal and economic implications.
The Cluster serves as a place of creation and exchange, and offers a program of collaborative learning and resource sharing, including residencies/fellowships, workshops and an annual conference.
The aim is to anticipate and propose responses to the imminent challenges presented by AI, help inform emerging AI policies and regulations, and promote the important role of the arts sector in democracy and cultural security.
Adopting a gender-sensitive intersectional perspective, the Cluster aims to balance technological innovation and social justice, serving as a counterweight to the growing influence of tech giants on AI public policy and governance.
AI Impact Alliance’s founder and executive director, Valentine Goddard, is an artist and lawyer. She is a member of Canada’s AI Advisory Council and a UN expert on public policy and AI governance.
Expertise
- Analysis of emerging regulatory frameworks on AI and data governance.
- Design of programs and creative media that bridge civic engagement and knowledge mobilization with policy innovation. Creative algorithmic literacy.
- Research and advice to increase your social impact via data strategies and AI solutions.
- Design and facilitation of workshops on AI and its ethical and legal implications.
Some notable achievements
- Design and programming of the first international conference on the social impacts of AI, AI on Social Mission, 5 editions from 2018-2022.
- Programming and numerous Art Impact AI workshops resulting in international public policies highlighting the important role of the arts in AI governance.
- Strategic socio-legal study on the feasibility of a data trust under Quebec law for the St. Lawrence River and the Quebec fisheries sector (Dec 2020-Feb 2022).
- Co-creation of best practices in data annotation for hate detection algorithms on social media (Feb-March 2022).
- PearAI.Art, an algorithmic art project to counter bias in AI, including the creation of an interactive application that collected data from women/wxm from over 40 countries. This project resulted in an interactive virtual exhibition, Algorithmic Frontiers.
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