“Ethical AI, On Your Own Machine”

A presentation and hands-on workshop on running AI locally, on your own hardware, without the cloud. We look critically at the ethics of contemporary AI – extracted training data, energy and water costs, surveillance and corporate control – and then get practical: installing and running open-weight models on ordinary laptops for text, image and sound. Participants leave with a working local setup and a clearer sense of what regaining artistic control over these tools actually means.

● How to set up a small AI
● How to build and feed your dataset
● When and how to connect to larger AI systems
● How different AIs respond based on their cultural and political contexts (US, EU, China)
● How these biases can affect and mislead European artists

Piksel is an international network and annual event for electronic art and technological freedom. Part workshop, part festival.

Sign up and bring a laptop.