POVs
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All of Tech’s a Stage
A masked trickster claims to be emperor of the moon, and his listeners fill in the details for him, nine times telling him it’s just like here. Fluent machine output meets the same welcome.
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Philosophy × AI: What Is It, Where Is It, Whose Is It?
A look at how a partial, unmarked Western philosophical frame travels as a view from nowhere addressed to everywhere, and how to make its provenance public.
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Water Powers: Sacred Aquatic Animals of the Asia-Pacific
An interdisciplinary collection on sacred aquatic animals as non-human agents that shape human lives (dragons, nagas, crocodiles, eels, dugongs, whales, and more).
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The Goldilocks Kōan: Why there are no “just right” names for AI
A multilingual inquiry into AI terminology and why “just right” labels do not exist because names carry cultural, political, and historical weight.
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Story of a Story (SoS): The Forest & The Trees
"Forest for the trees" has been telling us to zoom out for 500 years. The original Japanese version said something different. How that discovery became a story I told from stage, and why it worked.
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Research Risk Cascades
Essay on how how early-stage research errors propagate and reshape downstream insight and decision-making.
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The Marketization Trap of Financial Inclusion
Public forum on financial inclusion in the Global Majority in the context of AI.
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GDPVal Eval
Critical review of OpenAI’s “GDPVal” evaluation of model performance on economically valuable tasks across occupations.
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Dataset Nutrition & Cultural Implications of AI
Talk on human-centered scale, risk, and decision-making in AI-enabled research and product systems.
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Decolonizing LLMS
An ethnographic framework for understanding and critiquing large language models in African contexts, foregrounding situated practice, power, and knowledge.
Publication → Presentation → (EPIC membership required)
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Mind the AI Gaps in UX Research
Research companion to my UXMasterclass talk, capturing the core argument and supporting references.
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The Certification Gold Rush
Public forum on global AI standards and certification frameworks.
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Lost in Translation
Research companion to my UXinsight talk, capturing the core argument and supporting references.
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Your Tech Stack Needs a Thinking Stack
A live tutorial on building a decision framework for when and how to use AI research tools in ethnographic practice.
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Apertures of Intelligence
A pechakucha-style visual essay drawn from field studies in Japan.
