AI, Race, and Chinese Gaming Technologies
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Students, Faculty, and Staff
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Join the Department for Asian Studies for a talk with Dr. Yedong Sh-Chen, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor from Wellesley College, on AI, Race, and Chinese Gaming Technologies.
This talk investigates how AI recodes "Asian" faces into operative images in games, with particular attention to the scientific paradigms and epistemological convictions that underpin such recoding. It focuses on three Chinese deep learning models that reorganize facial information and redistribute semantic significance on digital faces. Tracing these models' scientific foundations through histories of physiology, psychology, and emotion science, examine how the game medium algorithmically inscribes race and ethnicity onto digital objects.