Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2025 Session: Redefining Algorithmic Intelligence in Practice

AI systems are proliferating under paradigms of efficiency, scale, and control. This session uses local knowledge, strategic ambiguity, and ethnographic refusal to re-shape AI and create intelligences that are more responsive to local contexts.

Date & Time

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 
2:00 pm – 
3:30 pm 
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00)
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 
4:00 am – 
5:30 am 
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC−07:00)

Format

Virtual or livestreamed

Overview

AI systems are proliferating under paradigms of efficiency, scale, and control. This session uses local knowledge, strategic ambiguity, and ethnographic refusal to re-shape AI and create intelligences that are more responsive to local contexts. Presentations in this session:

  • Archerithms and Algotypes: A Case for Productive Confusion through Controlled Equivocation
  • Intelligence as Situated, Ethical, and Attentive: Ethnographic Refusal as a Perennial Frontier
  • Multiple Intelligences in Knowledge Systems: Integrating Nursing Practice into the Design of Contextual AI for Health

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