Considering Cultural and Linguistic Diversity AI Applications: A Hybrid (In-Person/Virtual) Workshop

Description

Call for Participation and Workshop Website: https://cald-ai.github.io/

About the Workshop

AI has tremendous potential to improve all different aspects of our lives – leading to changes in many facets of life, including making our day-to-day lives easier, allowing for more personalized healthcare, and generating insights as we live and learn. There are also challenges and potential issues that we should consider, such as:

• How are people affected differently by AI?
• How might aspects of one’s culture, background, and other characteristics or traits affect how we might respond to AI?
• How might these considerations inform how we regard or develop applications involving AI?
• How do we collaboratively work towards integrating the values and preferences of communities of interest in AI tools?

This workshop will be a hybrid event on May 6, 2025 from 12:30pm to 16:30pm PST (time zone converter here). It seeks to bring together researchers, practitioners, and others who work with (or are interested in working with) culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations. All levels of technical expertise welcome!

Event purposes:

1. raise awareness about the importance of thoughtful engagement in the design of AI applications for culturally and linguistically diverse populations;
2. offer a venue to engage in activities to think about relevant concepts and build relevant skills; and
3. present and hear about the work of others on this topic.

Expected lessons learned:

1. experiential learning experiences with prompt engineering;
2. takeaways and strategies for working with communities of interest.

Workshop locations: University of Washington (UW); University of California, Irvine (UCI); and virtual.

Event Sponsors:

• Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) U.S. West Chapter
• UCI Connected Learning Lab

Workshop Schedule (all times PST, time zone converter here)