Can AI be wise as well as intelligent? We sit down with Wakanyi Hoffman, co-director of the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University, to discuss the questions AI designers might consider as this technology becomes ever more present in our daily lives.

Wakanyi reflects on how growing up in community and close to nature shaped her worldview, and how AI can draw on indigenous wisdom to address today’s challenges of disconnection. She also explores how AI can support NGOs by creating more time and space for meaningful work.

In this conversation:

• The role of AI designers in considering human connection

• The meaning of Ubuntu and the role it can play in designing wise AI

• AI as a tool for potential good within NGOs

With:
Wakanyi Hoffman, co-director of the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University, where she is researching ways of integrating indigenous African knowledge into emerging AI systems. She is also a storyteller, educator and public speaker. To find out more about Wakanyi and her work:

https://inclusiveailab.org/ 

https://www.africanfolktalesproject.com/

https://www.humanitylinkfoundation.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wakanyi-hoffman/

With thanks to the The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation for their support of the Inner Green Deal podcast which is hosted and produced by Tamsin Walker. Executive producer is IGD co-founder Jeroen Janss.

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