EPIC Redux: AI Meets Human – Who’s Really in Charge?
Delighted to share that Jamie Taylor, Service Designer at Sutherland Labs, will be presenting a repeat of the Pecha Kucha we shared at EPIC2024 this year. If you couldn’t make it to LA for the conference, now’s your chance!
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Join us for a provocative exploration of how AI is reshaping human connection, expertise, and power dynamics across the globe. Through the lens of ethnographic research, we’ll examine crucial questions about cultural sensitivity, human agency, and the future of work in an AI-enabled world.
This session moves between groundbreaking research presentations and lively PechaKucha talks, culminating in a panel discussion with leading experts. Together, we’ll challenge common assumptions about AI and discover why ethnographic perspectives are more crucial than ever in shaping technology that truly serves human needs.
Whether you’re a researcher, practitioner, or simply curious about the human dimensions of AI, this session promises fresh insights that go beyond the usual narratives.
We’ll have a break before the panel and will start the talks at 6:45pm, please arrive from 6:15pm to mingle and have a snack/drink.
- A History of EPIC in 20 Unwritten Proposals (10 min)
- Decolonizing LLMs: An Ethnographic Framework for AI Alignment (15 min)
- How Commoditized Empathy Can Impede Mutual Understanding (7 min)
- Experts-in-the-Loop: Why Humans Will Not Be Displaced by Machines when There Is “No Right Answer” (15 min)
- Panel: Where have we got to with AI? Boom or bust? Threat or opportunity for researchers? (30 min)
The Labs Team
