AICON

AI for all,
by all

AICON is a growing movement that once started from the social and behavioural science department at the Erasmus University. It now has lots of different kind of parties involved and it has increasingly more support. Movements are also starting to emerge from outside of the city of Rotterdam, so it is expanding beyond the Erasmus University campus.

At AICON, we co-create and attempt to make sure that the bias of the offline world doesn’t transfer into the online world. Art inspires, prompts thought and creates movement. Art is a great tool to create understanding about something invisible and ungraspable like AI, because an artist has the ability to make something visible in an accessible way. You can immediately tell what you think of a work of art or how it makes you feel. AICON aims to create understanding of AI by providing a creative perspective.

An elemental aspect of this project is starting conversations with each other about artificial intelligence in society. Human input is the basis of AI - it does not operate without it. It's therefore essential that the human input is from all of us and not merely from a limited group of people behind the scenes. The intersection between people from different walks of life can bring new insights and as a consequence we can create more inclusive solutions.