[TMP-119] The role of designers regarding AI design: a case study

Contact person: Jonne Maas (j.j.c.maas@tudelft.nl)

Internal Partners:

1. TU Delft, Jonne Maas, Juan M. Duran, and Jeroen van den Hoven
2. Umeå University (UMU), Virginia Dignum, and Luis Gustavo Ludescher

 

The purpose of this micro-project is to critically reflect on the design of an AI system by investigating the role of the designer. Designers make choices during the design of the system. Analysing these choices and their effective consequences contributes to an overall understanding of the situated knowledge embedded in a system. The reflection is concerned with questions like what does it mean for the output of the system what the designer’s interpretations are? In what way do they then exercise power on this system? In particular, this micro-project will examine a concrete case. It will follow the design of an agent-based social simulation that aims at modelling how inequality affects democracy.

Tangible Outcomes

1. Video presentation summarizing the project