Reclaiming Epistemic Justice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly shapes our imaginations of the future from climate models to humanitarian interventions it is vital to pause and ask: Whose knowledge is shaping AI? And more urgently: Who benefits, who is harmed, and who is simply ignored?
These questions animated the event AI as Provocateur, Partner, and Possibility, a collaborative knowledge exchange workshop with KPFE (Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships). Hosted by the Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern and convened by a transdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners, the workshop brought together environmental economists, geographers, film scholars, anthropologists, AI developers, and community organizers.
The goal was not to merely debate the ethics of AI, but to reimagine how AI might serve a plurality of worlds human and nonhuman, visible and invisible, dominant and marginal.
EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 2 September, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.
Organizers: Dr. Eda Elif Tibet & Dr. Jan Göpel, Land Systems and Sustainability Transformations, Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern
