Emotions Are Data: How to Use Your Feelings to Navigate AI
Ep 07 with Zena Collins, Emotional Intelligence Practitioner & Change Strategist. Jun 17, 43 min.
Zena Collins works at the intersection of emotional intelligence and technology, as a change strategist and co-founder of Grand Strategy Consulting.
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On this episode, she walks Mercy through a framework for treating difficult feelings about AI, overwhelm especially, not as something to push past, but as useful information worth listening to. The conversation also gets into Naha, a natural-hair AI concierge Zena and her collaborators built after noticing that AI image datasets kept repeating narrow, harmful narratives about Afro hair.
The framework: SUMMS
A science-based approach that treats your emotions as intelligent signals, and shows how to use them when AI starts to feel like too much.
Zena Collins
Key moments
- What the SUMMS framework stands for and how it works
- Why overwhelm about AI might be data, not a problem to solve
- Building Naha: catching bias against Afro hair in AI image datasets
Resources mentioned
- ToolNaha
A natural-hair AI concierge Zena and her collaborators built after AI image datasets kept repeating harmful narratives about Afro hair.