Good for What? Where Does AI Fit In

In this Lunchtime Talk, Amelia Winger-Bearskin will share her experience of working in immersive storytelling and ethical AI to address climate change, housing, and the design of Indigenous-led systems of care and kinship. Focusing on finding ways to use AI to benefit these communities and the environment.

About Amelia

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist and technologist from the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma. She is the Banks Endowed Chair of AI and the Arts at the University of Florida, where she founded the AI Climate Justice Lab. Her work combines immersive storytelling and ethical AI to address climate change, housing, and the design of Indigenous-led systems of care and kinship.

She is the creator of Wampum Codes and a former fellow of Stanford, Mozilla, and MIT’s Co-Creation Studio. Her projects have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum. Through art, code, and collaboration, she builds new tools for justice and imagination.