Workshop: Beyond the Principles: How to Make Responsible AI Real A 3-Part Intensive for Tech & Society Leaders
📣 New 3-Part Intensive Workshop: Making Responsible AI Real (Not Just a PDF)
Practical, hands-on training for tech & society leaders who want responsible AI to actually shape practice — not sit on a shelf.
Every organization now has “responsible AI principles.”
Very few have responsible AI practices.
This 3-part, interactive workshop series is designed to close that gap. It will take place on:
March 13 from 12 - 2 pm ET
March 20 from 12 - 2 pm ET
March 27 from 12 - 2 pm ET
Across three fast-paced, hands-on sessions, you’ll learn how to move your organization from beautifully written principles → day-to-day behaviors, decisions, and norms that actually embody responsible AI.
If you’re tired of ethics that lives in a slide deck, this is for you.
🌱 Workshop 1 — Shift the Mindsets That Quietly Undermine Responsible AI
From “Tech-First” → Sociotechnical Intelligence
The Problem:
Most responsible AI failures don’t begin with a model. They begin with a mindset.
In this workshop, we’ll surface the three default mindsets that sabotage responsible AI from the inside out:
Neutrality → treating data as objective truth
Techno-determinism → assuming technology drives change
Techno-solutionism → believing tools can “fix” social problems
The Shift:
You’ll learn to replace these with a sociotechnical mindset — one that makes visible the power, incentives, relationships, and histories shaping your system.
Hands-On Practice:
Using the Tech-First Thinking Diagnostic, you will:
Reframe a current AI initiative through relationships, power, and context
Map hidden feedback loops the technology will reinforce
See how the tool will actually behave inside your system
You Leave With:
A practical, repeatable method for spotting “solutionist traps” — and a clearer picture of how technology and culture will co-shape outcomes.
🌐 Workshop 2 — Center the System, Not the Tool
From “AI Strategy” → Relational Infrastructure & System Understanding
The Problem:
Organizations fixate on the tool: audits, parameters, “use cases.”
But tools don’t determine outcomes — systems do.
The Shift:
In this workshop, you’ll learn to step back from the tool and diagnose the sociotechnical system it will enter:
The relationships that enable or block change
The incentives that shape behavior
The narratives that orient decisions
The boundaries that hide harm
The affordances that shape practice
Hands-On Practice:
You’ll use two powerful mapping tools:
Boundary & Actor Mapping: Expand the system to reveal hidden stakeholders and unseen influences shaping outcomes
Relational Infrastructure Diagnostic: Assess the trust, norms, and patterns of interaction that determine whether AI will enable flourishing or reinforce inequity
You Leave With:
A clear map of the real system you’re intervening in — and a strategy grounded in human dynamics, not technology hype.
🔄 Workshop 3 — Reconfigure Your System for Adaptive, Accountable AI
From “Control & Evaluation” → Sense-Making, Coordination & Human Judgment
The Problem:
Complex systems don’t respond to static plans or top-down control.
Yet most organizations evaluate AI with backward-looking metrics and narrow dashboards.
The Shift:
This workshop will teach you how to:
Sense-make, not just evaluate: Detect early signals, shifting narratives, new feedback loops, and emerging risks
Translate across difference: Learn how to help team members with very different perspectives — about what AI is and isn't — collaborate without flattening their perspectives.
Design decision-making where AI supports — but never replaces — human judgment
Hands-On Practice:
Momentum Monitoring: Track relational, behavioral, and narrative signals of change
Multiple Perspectives Checklist: Ensure diverse epistemologies, roles, and power positions shape decisions
Translation Diagnostic: Assess whether your organization is structured to bridge difference or reinforce silos
AI-in-Decision-Making Checklist: Define where AI can assist — and where only humans can decide
You Leave With:
A concrete plan to help your organization translate responsible AI principles into day-to-day practices.
✔ What You’ll Walk Away With
3 interactive, live workshops (2 hours each via Zoom)
Practical diagnostics, tools, and templates you can use immediately
A 50+ page Playbook with all exercises
A replicable process for translating Responsible AI principles into everyday practice
New ways to see — and shift — the sociotechnical dynamics shaping your system
Can’t make the time of these sessions?
Send me a message — I may open a second workshop series.