ALT Octavia Butler AI: Other Radical Possibilities of Technology Monday Dec. 4th, 4:00pm-5:30 ET “Meanwhile blackness means to render unanswerable the question of how to govern the thing that loses and finds itself to be what it is not.” — Harney & Moten, The Undercommons Beth Coleman's argument in this project is to make AI more wild, not less. By wild, she indicates generative possibility for the technology in opposition to the reproduction of the same. The prompt for this line of inquiry is the call for transparency and accountability as an “ethics” in AI design. Another prompt is the “alien encounters” described in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series of speculative fiction. This talk wonders if advocacy toward a corrective can produce the ends sought: less harmful bias and more equitable opportunity. What if—outside of the frame of the ethical corrective—one reorients AI application and ontology?