SETSI AI Community of Practice: Architecting A Just Transition
Mission of the Community
To channel the transformative power of radical inclusion, Ancestral wisdom, and frontline insight into a new, complexity-informed praxis for systemic risk and renewal, specifically within the domain of artificial intelligence.
We convene monthly to forge a living laboratory where lived experience directly shapes AI ethics, development, and governance, transforming systemic risk into pathways for systemic renewal.
Core Principles & Praxis
Radical Inclusion as Foundation: Center the voices, genius, and design principles from the frontline and the diaspora.
Ancestral Wisdom as Compass: Integrate Indigenous and ancestral knowledge systems to navigate ethical complexity and long-term thinking.
Frontline Insight as Blueprint: Treat community-identified risks and innovations as the primary source material for actionable AI frameworks.
Complexity-Informed Praxis: Move beyond simple solutions to develop adaptive, resilient strategies for socio-technical systems.
Capacity-Strengthening Architecture: Build collective capability to audit, influence, and co-create AI systems that serve justice.
Monthly Practice: A Cycle of Renewal
Each gathering is a deliberate step in a continuous cycle:
GROUNDING in lived experience and systemic truth.
ANALYZING AI risks and opportunities through a lens of historic inequity and resilience.
CATALYZING new ideas, tools, and strategies infused with Ancestral wisdom.
ARCHITECTING prototypes, policies, and narratives for equitable AI.
STRENGTHENING the community’s capacity to act as field catalysts.
Who We Are
Practitioners, community technologists, ethicists, healers, data scientists, organizers, and wisdom-keepers who commit to this praxis. We are those from the sharpest intersections and committed allies, working not for but with and within the genius of marginalized communities.
Outcome: Durable Solutions
We co-create:
Frameworks & Tools: For assessing AI's intersectional impact.
Guardrails & Governance: Models for AI that prevent harm and incentivize equity.
Narratives & Proof Points: Demonstrating the non-negotiable value of frontline genius in technological futures.
A Catalyzed Field: A strengthened network of architects driving a just transition in AI, globally.
The SETSI Institute | AI Community of Practice
We exist to architect and catalyze. We meet to strengthen, design, and renew.
To participate, email: Maat@setsi.ca