Hello, my name is Amelia Winger-Bearskin

I am the Banks Endowed Preeminence Chair of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts at the University of Florida Digital Worlds Institute. I am the director of the UF AI Climate Justice Lab. I am the founder of Wampum.codes a podcast and is an ethical framework for AI and software development based on the principles understood by my people (Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma.)  She/Her Pronouns.

Like all members of the houdenoshounee Confederacy, we made wampum. A lot of people have a misconception about what wampum is - they think it was a form of currency. It was a decentralized means of recording contracts, something like a pre-Colombian blockchain, that encoded not just financial transactions, but also ethical values.

  • The project of Wampum.codes is to try and imagine how we can weave ethics back into 21st-century technologies.

  • We can embed these values as dependencies in code the same way we do in the rest of our package.json

  • By implementing a decentralized protocol around ethics in AI software, we can step in the right direction. 

  • We live our lives according to a moral code. The time has come to code our morals.