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by Josh Lovejoy | Jan, 2021 | UX Collective

Be user centric, stay focused, maintain a healthy give-and-take relationship. Get data.

By Elaine Lee | You may not know it, but as a product designer, you most likely have been designing for products that use some form of artificial intelligence.

Op-ed: Many methods have been developed to promote fairness, transparency and accountability in the predictions made by artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. A technical approach is often the focal point of these methodologies, however, to develop truly ethical machine learning systems that can be trusted by their users, it's important to supplement this with a human-centred approach.

Thryn Shapira discusses balancing user control and automation in AI-powered reminiscing features.

Human intelligence emerges from our combination of senses and language abilities. Maybe the same is true for artificial intelligence.

Understand what AI is, and the jobs & aspects of work most likely to be automated by AI, so you know how to position yourself for the…

Heuristics and applied use cases to drive AI-powered experiences

By Daphne Milner via It's Nice That | Mainstream conversations around artificial intelligence, while sometimes characterised by a rhetoric of scientific progress, often deal with anxieties related to the tech. Critiquing its shortcomings is not enough, however. Art can help shape the future of artificial intelligence by exposing its limitations and tendencies to further systemic inequalities.

By fph | What if human data is de-humanized? What if technology restricts human agency? This speculative design work and reflection explores the digital culture that might emerge, while serving as a reminder of the necessity for human-machine collaboration.

by Kursat Ozenc via Ritual Design Lab | 6 Reflections on Stanford’s Culturally Relevant AI Summit

By Ben Syverson, IDEO | What happens when you invite GPT-3 to a virtual brainstorm session? A designer/developer at IDEO ran an experiment and wrote about it here!

By Stanford HAI | The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence to develop a deeper understanding of the complex field.

By ai-explanations (an ad-hoc feminist collective of digital rights researchers, design thinkers, artists, journalists and social media specialists) | "HOW is AI and digital technology shaping our realities, rights, justice, equality ? What are the harms? How can we counter these harms as individuals, communities, governments? What are we hopeful for and how can we fix or overthrow these systems together?"

AI outputs are fascinating, but lack empathy, creativity, and context. Because of this designers have the responsibility to design ethical…

By Rebecca Feibrink | A paper aiming to provide foundation for the research and practice of machine learning education for creative practitioners.