The Design Research Lab is a network of people, organisations, and non-human agents engaged at the intersection of technologies, materials, and social practices. Our aim is to design socially and ecologically sustainable tools, spaces, and knowledge that support people’s participation in a digital society – based on common principles of inclusiveness and respect for the planet. This puts the basic democratic right to take part in the digital sphere into practice. We start our research from individual lifeworlds and the needs of minoritized groups, beyond consumer majorities.
We are an interdisciplinary team of designers, researchers, tech-enthusiasts and critical thinkers from Berlin University of the Arts, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, as well as Einsteincenter Digital Future (ECDF).
We are joined by Sadhli Roomy for a session titled “Adopting Ethical AI for Impact in the Global South” as part of the Virtual Colloquium. The session will introduce core ethical AI principles – fairness, transparency and accountability – and explore their real-world application through Acme AI’s Bangladesh use-cases (livestock advisory, autonomous advisory chatbots, complex integrative systems, and more). Students will see how biases in data surrounding AI can impact Global South communities and, subject to affordances and constraints, sketch their own speculative prototype that embeds ethical safeguards for challenges along with exploring sustainability pathways for their prototypes.
Sadhli is a frontier technologist and development practitioner with 10+ years of experience in digital development, communications, public policy, product management, and portfolio leadership across public health, precision agriculture, technical education, and good governance. Sadhli founded Acme AI Ltd. in 2020 – which has since become the largest full-service AI and frontier technology enterprise in Bangladesh. Acme AI works with global AI tech giants, international charities and philanthropies, and governments surrounding data solutions, capacity development and boutique system development in South Asia.
Please find below the Zoom link to join, which will be the same for all online sessions this semester:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82954605489?pwd=VP3XBDzVogeuQtLWaXbWEFpm9ObxiQ.1
Meeting-ID: 829 5460 5489
Kenncode: 079532