Philosophy × AI: What Is It, Where Is It, Whose Is It?
Lindsey DeWitt Prat · 2026
A look at how a partial, unmarked Western philosophical frame travels as a view from nowhere addressed to everywhere, and how to make its provenance public.
→ Substack

Water Powers: Sacred Aquatic Animals of the Asia-Pacific
Edited by Aike P. Rots, Florence Durney, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, and Sonja Åman · 2026
An interdisciplinary collection on sacred aquatic animals as non-human agents that shape human lives (dragons, nagas, crocodiles, eels, dugongs, whales, and more).
→ University of Hawai'i Press

Four monks dressed in traditional robes walking under a colorful, ornate structure with green and red pillars, likely part of a temple or monastery.

The Goldilocks Kōan: Why there are no “just right” names for AI
Lindsey DeWitt Prat · 2026
A multilingual inquiry into AI terminology and why “just right” labels do not exist because names carry cultural, political, and historical weight.
→ Read → Substack

Story of a Story (SoS): The Forest & The Trees
Lindsey DeWitt Prat · 2026
"Forest for the trees" has been telling us to zoom out for 500 years. The original Japanese version said something different. How that discovery became a story I told from stage, and why it worked.
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Diagram showing the research risk cascade from research question to insight with arrows indicating potential risks at each stage, highlighted by a pink arrow pointing to the insight stage.

Research Risk Cascades
Lindsey DeWitt Prat · 2026
Essay on how how early-stage research errors propagate and reshape downstream insight and decision-making.
→ Read → Substack

Slide from a presentation titled 'AIFOD Public Forum' with a photo of Lindsey Dewitt Prat, Director of Research at Bold Insight, discussing 'Financial Stress Moments Need Human Support.' The slide has a gradient background with blue and purple tones, a logo in the top right corner, and a upward arrow graphic.

The Marketization Trap of Financial Inclusion
AI for Developing Countries Forum · 2025
Public forum on financial inclusion in the Global Majority in the context of AI.
→ Insights on my contributions → Forum report

GDPVal Eval
Lindsey DeWitt Prat · 2025
Critical review of OpenAI’s “GDPVal” evaluation of model performance on economically valuable tasks across occupations.
→ Deck → Substack

Dataset Nutrition & Cultural Implications of AI
IBM TechXchange Dev Day · 2025
Talk on human-centered scale, risk, and decision-making in AI-enabled research and product systems.
→ Watch → Deck

Decolonizing LLMS
EPIC · 2024
An ethnographic framework for understanding and critiquing large language models in African contexts, foregrounding situated practice, power, and knowledge.
→ Publication → Presentation (EPIC membership required)

Mind the AI Gaps in UX Research
UXMasterclass · 2025
Research companion to my UXMasterclass talk, capturing the core argument and supporting references.
→ Companion doc

Presentation slide titled "The Certification Gold Rush" by Lindsey DeWitt Prat, with a photo of a woman with blonde hair and black top, and the logos of OPINION, AI POLICY, and AI FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FORUM, on a background with technological circuit-like graphics.

The Certification Gold Rush
AI for Developing Countries Forum · 2025
Public forum on global AI standards and certification frameworks.
→ Insights on my contributions → Forum report

Lost in Translation
UXinsight Festival · 2025
Research companion to my UXinsight talk, capturing the core argument and supporting references.
→ Companion doc

Your Tech Stack Needs a Thinking Stack
EPIC · 2025
A live tutorial on building a decision framework for when and how to use AI research tools in ethnographic practice.
→ Deck → Tutorial description

Apertures of Intelligence
Lindsey DeWitt Prat · 2025
A pechakucha-style visual essay drawn from field studies in Japan.
→ Deck