TC Artificial
Intelligence Project
01 Mission
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are no longer just speeding up tasks—they are reshaping how we think, research, and collaborate. The Transformations Community AI Co-Design Initiative explores how AI can support more just sustainability transformations. We believe in more than just adopting the latest AI tools—we aim to create a space to critically examine how AI shapes our relationships, systems, and futures. Can AI help us navigate complexity and build trust, or will it distort the connections that enable meaningful transformation?
Through interactive workshops, an expanding tool repository, and ongoing dialogue, we seek to surface patterns, confront tensions, and co-create the practical wisdom needed for ethical AI engagement. Our evolving AI Ethics Manifesto, grounded in the Four Ts—Transdisciplinarity, Translocalism, Transformative Learning, and Temperance—serves as a living, co-created framework to understand the ethical implications and limitations of AI for sustainability transformations. Curious to further develop our manifesto?
Get in touch:
haley@transformationscommunity.org
02 Summer Workshop Series 2025
Join our summer workshop series as we critically explore the key ethical and practical questions transdisciplinary sustainability researchers and practitioners face in AI adoption. Through hands-on experimentation with innovative AI tools, expert reflections, and interactive discussions, each workshop dives into how AI is influencing work once thought to be uniquely human, across transformation roles like the Researcher & Publisher, Reflective Practitioner, and Collaborative Facilitator. How might these tools enhance our work while strengthening our ability to assess the risks and challenges of AI in sustainability transformations?
UPCOMING EVENTS
Stay Tuned for our TC/ESG Johannasburg Conference Workshop (Date & Time TBD)
Ghost in the Manuscript: Exploring Authorship and AI Using NotebookLM
On July 15th, our workshop explored how NotebookLM, Google’s AI “research assistant,” impacts authorship, agency, and knowledge creation. With guest critic Ollie Bream McIntosh, we examined the tension between AI enhancing research and diminishing our critical capacities. Participants highlighted the risk of AI tools like NotebookLM bypassing the creative “human struggle” in learning and stressed the need for a shared vocabulary in AI discourse. The workshop prompted us to reconsider our relationship with AI as a relational partner – one of many “nodes of intelligence in a reciprocal web of life” reshaping human knowledge.
Can AI Build Trust and Hold Space? A Workshop with Harmonica
On June 17th, we tested Harmonica — a generative AI tool for collaborative sensemaking. Participants explored its AI-assisted chat, surfaced ethical tensions, and reimagined AI as a sparring partner for collaboration. Our sounding board — Silva Ferretti, Scott Chaplowe, and Harmonica’s founder Artem Zhiganov — nudged the conversation further into the future of AI in collaboration.
Navigating AI With Purpose
On May 6th, we explored the ethical challenges of using AI in sustainability transformations, emphasizing the need for community-driven, locally tailored approaches. Engaging with our AI Ethics Manifesto, participants reflected on real-world ethical dilemmas and potential pathways to guide more responsible and equitable AI use in our collective transformation efforts.
03 Community Spotlight
Our AI Community Spotlight highlights transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of AI, sustainability transformations, and complex real-world challenges.
Dr. Theresa Züger
Theresa Züger is an interdisciplinary researcher in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). She heads the AI & Society Lab at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on the theory and practices of AI aiming to serve the public interest.
Silvia ferretti
Silva Ferretti is an independent consultant working across humanitarian, development, and peace sectors. She blends creativity, data visualization, and AI to leverage deep change—embracing complexity through curiosity, accountability, learning, and a culture of fresh thinking.
Scott Chaplowe
Scott Chaplowe is an international evaluation strategist advancing sustainable development through systems thinking, capacity development, and evidence use—bridging practice and policy across global initiatives, foundations, and crisis-affected settings. He is a learner and user of AI.
04 Team
We are excited to welcome our AI Fellows: Matthew Bejtlich, Rimaz Mohamed, and Utkarsh Prajapati, who were selected out of over +100 applicants. Our Fellows will play a leading role in driving experimentation, framework development, and community engagement throughout the project.
MATTHEW BEJTLICH
AI Fellow
Rimaz Mohamed
AI Fellow
Utkarsh Prajapati
AI Fellow
05 Resources
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06 Get Involved
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