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With IntentAuthor: IIT Institute of Design
With Intent is a podcast from ID where we talk to a range of peoplewriters, designers, business strategists, policymakers, doctors, community organizers. The common thread? Whether they self-identify as designers or not, they're using design in their work. Language: en Genres: Arts, Business, Design Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Bonus: AI and Democracy with Terry Williams-Willcock and Chelsea Pratt
Tuesday, 5 August, 2025
In this episode from ID's Shapeshift conference, Terry Williams-Willcock, Chief Customer Officer at RUSH Digital, and Chelsea Pratt, Design Lead & Strategist at Thoughtfull, discuss ways that intentionally designed AI can address challenges to democracy.Key TopicsWhy "AI won't save democracy, but design might."The democratic crisis of trust: why people aren't disengaging from voting because they don't care, but because they don't know who or what information sources to trust.Designing for the margins to benefit everyone: how focusing on visually impaired voters revealed universal barriers to accessing political information and participating in democracy.Their work on Chime: using various AI tools to transform complex policy content into engaging, multi-perspective audio experiences.Why human values must drive AI design principles and move beyond commercial incentives toward transparency, accessibility, and shared truth as the foundation for democratic participation.Additional ResourcesID’s Shapeshift Summit: Shaping Our Future with AIID Events Institute of Design at Illinois TechDiscover programs and resources on design and systems thinking.Subscribe to With Intent for more explorations into how design shapes our world, whether we call it design or not.
