Making AI Less Harmful By ReDesigning Us
I’ve been in design give or take on and off for more than 20 years. Design has always been my background to my storytelling foreground a way to willfully widen the narrative of the world to include people like me; those often on the periphery and in the margins.
For the last five years, I’ve been immersed wholly in AI design and striving to make it ethically sound and less harmful. After learning and experimenting with some of the brightest designers, data scientists and researchers in the world I’m now focused on sharing what I’ve learned.
I’ve written, talked, presented and taught sharing all I’ve learned about developing more humane artificial intelligent products.
My brain has been overloaded reading papers from the 1950s on how to create AI, articles on AI systems wreaking havoc at some of the biggest tech companies, to reading books released this year on how algorithms are making inequality in America even worse (must read by Virginia Eubanks) and arguing with colleagues about who is really at fault when algorithms go awry.
And what I have concluded after studying everything I could get my hands on about AI, ethics, design and society, is that: it’s the people stupid.
No matter how many people point to the newest technology as being a threat to humanity I still…
