AI & Technology

Technology without trust isn’t innovation—it’s risk.

From generative Artificial Intelligence to everyday apps, digital platforms are shaping how we live, work, connect, and make decisions. Whether you’re developing AI models, building digital tools, or deploying platforms at scale, the Re/Designing Trust Action Lab challenges you to center transparency, equity, and accountability at every stage of innovation. This four-day immersive experience centers those most impacted by technological harm, not just as stakeholders, but as co-creators.

Example Trust Redesign Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence and Technology:

An AI product used in hiring is flagged for disproportionately screening out applicants from marginalized backgrounds, leading to public outcry and loss of trust.

Engineers identify bias in a model but leadership deprioritizes fixing it due to deadlines, prompting employee whistleblowing and user mistrust.

A major tech platform rolls out updates that disproportionately impact disabled users and low-income communities—without testing with them.

A centralized content moderation system enforces biased policies that silence marginalized voices online, sparking user exodus.

Innovation spaces often prioritize speed over social impact, leaving justice-focused creators without resources or visibility.

Users, especially from historically surveilled communities, are opting out of digital platforms due to unclear or exploitative data practices.

Trust is the missing algorithm—and it’s costing us. 

The Re/Designing Trust in Action Lab is a four-day immersive experience designed for product designers, engineers, data scientists, technologists, policy leaders, and ethicists who are ready to rethink how technology earns public trust. This isn’t just about responsible innovation. It’s about earning public trust in a field that cannot afford to ignore it any longer.

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Across four transformative days, reimagine technology with communities, not just for users. Build digital tools, design practices, and governance models that center accountability, protect dignity, and rebuild trust where it’s been broken. Technology can serve the people—but only if we’re bold enough to redesign how it’s built.

The Re/Designing Trust Action Lab: AI & Technology will culminate with co-created trust-based interventions to be publicly disseminated for industry-wide systems change.

This is not a retreat. It’s a reckoning. Walk in with a problem. Walk out with a plan—and a community.

Rebuilding Trust in AI & Technology Begins  Here.

By the end of the Re/Designing Trust Action Lab: AI & Technology, participants will be able to:

• Identify historical and systemic injustices—such as algorithmic bias, surveillance, extractive data practices, and digital redlining—that have contributed to deep-rooted mistrust between the tech industry and excluded and underinvested communities.
• Examine their roles, decision-making authority, and institutional power within technology systems, and how their identities and positions impact trust and access in the development and deployment of digital tools and platforms.
• Co-create trust-centered technology interventions that directly respond to historical and contemporary harms experienced by underinvested communities, including biased algorithms, consent violations, and exclusionary design.
• Develop actionable strategies for long-term community engagement that move beyond performative ethics panels or user testing to authentic, community-driven development cycles that foster mutual respect and institutional accountability.
• Strengthen their capacity to embed dignity and trust into technological systems by reimagining how platforms, products, and policies can repair harm, restore relationships, and earn sustained public trust.

By the end of the Re/Designing Trust Action Lab: AI & Technology experience, graduates will receive:

• Certificate of Completion

• Complimentary access to RE/EDU online community of practice

• Early access to additional practical learning experiences and resources

• Lab Newsletter

• Name acknowledgment in sector-specific Re/Designing Trust in Action Lab Trust Report

• Bonus: Redesigners for JusticeTM Participation Pin

• Bonus: Equity-Centered Community Design 1.0 field guide (by Creative Reaction Lab)

• Bonus: Nature of Trust Bio 360 Report (by Biomimicry 3.8 & Biomimicry for Social Innovation)

$2,444 per person

Buy One, Sponsor One: Each full-price registration covers your tuition and also sponsors a complimentary ticket for a living expert—an individual directly impacted by the industry of focus who does not work within it.

During registration, you may nominate a qualified living expert or designate someone to receive your sponsored ticket.

RDTL: AI & Technology

$2,444.00

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