How Was the Cultures in AI/AI in Culture Workshop Structured?

The Cultures in AI/AI in Culture workshop was a one-day virtual event held on December 9 as part of NeurIPS 2022. Its structure combined two named panel sessions—"AI Curating Culture" and "Cultures of AI"—with a reviewing process and a defined presentation format, and it was designed as a cross-disciplinary conversation pairing NeurIPS/ML researchers with experts in HCI and the social sciences. The page evidence confirms these components but does not list a full hour-by-hour agenda, so the details below reflect what the site actually documents.

Core Format at a Glance

The Two Panel Sessions

The workshop's intellectual structure is organized around a two-way relationship between AI and culture, and the panels mirror that split.

Panel 1: AI Curating Culture

This panel addresses the direction of AI shaping culture—how AI-driven tools for art, music, and language curate content and shape consumption patterns. If you are interested in recommendation systems, generative art, or content production tools, this is the session aligned with that interest.

Panel 2: Cultures of AI

This panel addresses the reverse direction: the cultures that shape AI production. The workshop description ties this to how human values and biases enter systems through annotation practices, training data pipelines, model design choices, and organizational incentives. Readers concerned with where bias comes from in model development will find this panel the closer match.

Reviewing and Presentation Format

The page lists both a "Reviewing" section and a "Presentation Format" section, which indicates the workshop ran a reviewed submission process and specified how accepted work was presented. The available page evidence names these sections but does not reproduce their contents—so specific review criteria, acceptance numbers, or talk versus poster allocations cannot be confirmed from the source. If you need those particulars, treat the original site sections as the authoritative place to check rather than assuming a format.

Who the Structure Was Built For

The format is explicitly cross-disciplinary. The workshop "brings together experts on AI development from the NeurIPS and ML community and places them in conversation with experts on human biases and cultural theories from HCI and the social sciences." The stated rationale is that foundational AI/ML research "lacks a deeper understanding of what culture is," and that culturally responsive systems require thinking about both the cultures shaping AI and the impact of AI on global cultures.

This matters for how you read the schedule: the panels are not parallel tracks for separate audiences but deliberate pairings of technical and social-science perspectives on the same question.

Practical Takeaways

• If you want the agenda structure: expect two themed panels plus reviewed presentations, delivered virtually on December 9.
• If you want to cite the workshop: the two panel titles and the AI–culture bidirectional framing are directly supported by the page.
• If you need session times, speakers, or review outcomes: these are not in the available evidence; consult the site's Reviewing and Presentation Format sections directly.