open source – Artificial Intelligence

Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA)

Gregor Tatschl — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 07:23:15 +0000

Derek Curry (US), Jennifer Gradecki (US)

The Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA) is a creative research project that partially replicates an open-source intelligence (OSINT) system, including an interface that allows users to experience how intelligence agents surveil social media posts and two machine-learning classifiers for predictive policing.

Like OSINT interfaces used by intelligence agencies and government contractors, the CSIA recontextualizes social media posts by removing them from their original context and reframing them as a potential threat to national security. The app was created using technical manuals, research reports, academic papers, leaked documents and Freedom of Information Act files.

By providing first-hand experience with social media monitoring systems, the CSIA exposes potential problems with current dataveillance processes in order to help users understand the effectiveness of OSINT processing and make informed decisions when navigating social media surveillance.

Credits

Support provided by Science Gallery Dublin

www.crowdsourcedintel.org

The Plastic Lab

Gregor Tatschl — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 11:20:30 +0000

circ responsibility (DE)

Washed up on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly emerging on our beaches is only the prelude to the greater story that has unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land. For more than fifty years, the global production and consumption of plastics has continued to rise. An approximate eight million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans every year, which equals one truck of plastic per minute.

The objective of the Plastic Lab is to develop an artificial, caring intelligence that creates a meta open-source database with all kinds of solutions to address the issue of plastic waste. Information on materials science, recycling technology and business models will be made available at no cost, so that entrepreneurs, designers, engineers and innovators around the world can access this information and apply it in their local context. Let’s solve the century’s challenge of plastic pollution!

Credits

The Plastic Lab was initiated by Hans Reitz, Christina Jäger and Ilona Geimer.