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The site at ai-cultures.github.io is the official page for Cultures in AI/AI in Culture, a cross-disciplinary workshop held virtually on December 9 as part of NeurIPS 2022. It is not a software tool, dataset, or ongoing publication venue: it is a workshop record that explains the event's theme, program structure, and participation format. It is most useful to readers who want to understand the workshop's framing of the relationship between AI and culture, or who are looking for the agenda and format of that specific 2022 event.
What the workshop was about
The workshop's central premise is a two-way relationship:
- Culture shapes AI. Human values and biases enter AI systems through annotation practices, training data pipelines, model design choices, and larger organizational incentives. The organizers argue that AI/ML research often lacks a deep account of what culture is, which limits its ability to diagnose biases that development unconsciously globalizes.
- AI shapes culture. AI-driven tools for art, music, and language production curate content and shape consumption patterns, and AI-generated art in particular gives AI research enormous cultural impact.
The stated goal was to put NeurIPS and ML researchers in conversation with experts on human biases and cultural theory from HCI and the social sciences, so that culturally sensitive and responsive AI systems become easier to reason about.
Who it was for
The workshop was aimed at a mixed audience rather than a single discipline:
| Audience | What the page offers them |
|---|---|
| AI/ML researchers | A framing of bias and values as cultural questions, plus social-science perspectives usually absent from ML venues |
| HCI and social science researchers | A venue connecting cultural theory to concrete AI development practice |
| Prospective participants | Program structure (panels, reviewing, presentation format) and the virtual format |
Program structure shown on the page
The page lists two panels and two participation details:
- Panel 1: AI Curating Culture — covers the direction in which AI tools select, generate, and shape cultural content.
- Panel 2: Cultures of AI — covers the direction in which the cultures of AI-producing institutions and communities shape the technology.
- Reviewing — a reviewing process is listed, indicating that submissions were evaluated.
- Presentation Format — the page specifies how accepted work was presented.
The page does not publish pricing, registration fees, or attendance requirements, so those details should not be assumed from the site alone.
How to use the page
- Open ai-cultures.github.io and read the description section first; it states the workshop's motivation and scope in full.
- Use the panel headings to see how the organizers split the AI–culture relationship into two directions.
- Check the Reviewing and Presentation Format sections if you are trying to understand how the workshop was run rather than its intellectual content.
A practical limitation to keep in mind: this is a 2022 workshop page, so it documents a past event. If you need current calls for papers, deadlines, or recordings, this site is a starting reference rather than a live source, and you would need to check NeurIPS 2022 workshop materials or the organizers' later work.