One challenge in designing AI comes from the work needed to align the wants of the users, the needs of society, the abilities of the tools, and the content of data themselves. These disconnects are often unspoken, yet regularly lead to unintended ethical impacts. For example, when designing AI intended to be used in decisions to help people the most, what happens if the AI looks for how to help the most people, but the user wants to know who needs help the most?

This workshop starts from these disconnects, using uncertainty as a conceptual framing tool to explore how creative, hands-on, and participatory methods can help us see how ethical challenges like social injustices, uneven benefits, or unexpected responsibilities relate to the design and use of AI.

Speaker Biography

Katrina Petersen is a Research Manager at Trilateral Research. Her research uses multi-disciplinary methods to examine societal and ethical impacts of emerging technologies that bring together environmental, hazard, and human data to communicate risk. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego.

About AI Ethics through Design

AI Ethics through Design is a companion program to the AI Ethics through Design Collab Brief that is hosted by the Design School of LCC:UAL in collaboration with IsITethical? Exchange.

The programme invites industry partners and academic guests developing work that interrogates and explores the role of design and the arts in supporting AI responsible innovation, by reformulating ethics away from the tick box exercise and into collaborative, creative, contextual process that informs better social and environmental futures.

Attending the programme is not a requisite for submission but will help you to frame your project.

Open to PGT Design students only.

Worst, Most, Uncertainty