P-AIA Participatory AI for Alternative Sustainable Futures

Emerging artificial intelligent (AI) technologies are instrumental in the green transition towards more inclusive and sustainable futures, with a pivotal role in managing natural and green energy resources in diverse cultural contexts. Yet, the technologies are designed based on Westernised values, principles and models of prediction that challenge local participation, agency and empowerment. Addressing the urgent need for humanistic research for driving technological innovation and green transitions, P-AIAdevelops design anthropological approaches to explore and codesign decolonising forms of AI based on diverse local values, knowledges and lifeworlds in Namibia and Denmark. Through two complementary cases of net zero communities, responsible AI, and sustainable energy collectives, P-AIAcontributes with novel knowledge, methodologies and frameworks for developing everyday green automation for sustainable AI futures in highly culturally diverse local and global contexts.