Design thinking in AI policymaking: crafting human-centric frameworks

Creative solutions for ethical & innovative AI governance

“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity — not a threat.” — Steve Jobs

Let me first self identify before I proceed — I am a Computational Rhetorician, exploring the link between AI and identity characterization. In short, I explore, how AI uses human data to create digital versions of us for the purpose of persuasion. I coined the term algorithmic ethopoeia or in more lay terms algorithmic characterization, which I define as follows:

“the mathematizing of human data for the purpose of digital representation and human characterization, through the processes of sorting and targeting, with subsequent subjugation to algorithmic procedures and decision-making protocols.”

My earlier, notably influential publications, User Experience in the Age of Sustainability, emerged during my tenure leading the Design team at Research in Motion. It was a time when I recognized the imperative to embed sustainability at the heart of design…