Workshop Call: AI as Provocateur, Partner and Possibility
- INTERFACE
- May 6
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AI as Provocateur, Partner, and Possibility
A Knowledge Exchange Workshop for Conservation Science and Global Partnerships
Time
14:00 - 16:00
Organizers: Dr. Eda Elif Tibet & Dr. Jan Göpel, Land Systems and Sustainability Transformations, Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern
We are living in a time of radical transformation where artificial intelligence is not merely a tool, but a provocateur, reshaping how we think, research, and relate to knowledge itself. This knowledge exchange workshop invites researchers, community leaders, and AI practitioners to reimagine AI not as a threat, but as a collaborative partner, one that invites us to question, co-create, and re-envision the future of science, conservation, and knowledge creation. While AI’s creative and analytical capacities are celebrated, many raise valid concerns about bias, loss of human meaning, and erasure of traditional knowledge systems. This workshop creates a dialogical space for critical reflection and mutual learning, bringing together diverse perspectives to explore how AI can support, rather than substitute human insight, ethical practice, and collective imagination.
We will discuss:
How AI models (not just ChatGPT!) are already used in scientific research and ecological conservation, global protected areas and migration research
The ethics of AI: data traceability, source crediting, and memory training
How indigenous and disappearing languages can be sustained through AI training
Visual and iconographic participatory storytelling with AI to overcome language barriers and geographical distances
Tools like Theory of Change analyzers and human-oriented text enhancers for decision-making and visioning solutionscapes
Format:
Keynote Introduction (15 min)
Case Studies (60 min): Short presentations (7 mins each) by various authors; on AI tools used in research collaborations across Wyss Academy Hubs (Kenya, Peru, Lao PDR, Madagaskar, Switzerland and Global).
Interactive Plenary Discussion (45 min): Participants engage and share experiences and discuss the ethical and practical challenges of using AI for knowledge co-creation.
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