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AI Observer

Welcome to AI Observer
Artificial intelligence is changing everything. But who is shaping it, and how should we respond?

AI Observer is a new editorial channel from Design Observer dedicated to exploring the cultural, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of artificial intelligence. We look beyond the hype to examine how AI intersects with design, power, labor, identity, and imagination.

Through essays, interviews, visual experiments, and provocations, AI Observer invites designers, thinkers, artists, technologists, and everyday users to interrogate the systems we’re building and to ask: what kind of intelligence do we really want?

This is not a space for techno-evangelism. It’s a space for inquiry, critique, and creativity. Because how we design AI will shape the future for all of us.

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Ellen McGirt

Love Letter to a Garden and 20 years of Design Matters with Debbie Millman

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‘The conscience of this country’: How filmmakers are documenting resistance in the age of censorship

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Ellen McGirt

Redesigning the Spice Trade: Talking Turmeric and Tariffs with Diaspora Co.’s Sana Javeri Kadri

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Alexis Haut

It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green: ‘Wicked’ spells for struggle and solidarity