What Do We Want Our Machines to Remember?

A critical, hands-on workshop on LLMs, shared knowledge, & community power.

Who gets to design the technologies shaping our lives? Whose knowledge do they hold? And what relationship do we actually want with large language models?

Join digital ethicists Tess Buckley and Caitlin Morris for a critical, hands-on workshop about LLMs, shared knowledge & community power

➰ Explore an offline small language model built from knowledge shared by the group

➰ Decide together what a community-held system should contain, protect or refuse

➰ Sew a page of shared computer memory using conductive thread, LEDs & diodes

Together, we’ll ask what counts as technical knowledge, who gets to be a designer or engineer, and how communities can understand, govern, reshape or reject the technologies entering their lives.

You don’t need to be “pro-AI” to participate. Questions, skepticism & disagreement are welcome.

Sunday, September 13 10:00 AM–12:00 PM The MADE, Oakland