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Mikhail Wertheim Aymès

MA work

MA work

OPACITY

The OPACITY Trust Mark is the first independent consumer instrument to hold companies and organisations which create Artificial Intelligence that resembles the diversity of humanity. Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being used to automate our world, and with it come increasingly challenging social issues. The OPACITY Trust Mark raises the bar of inclusive algorithms by certifying the process of their development using a peer-to-peer service. The mark additionally brings a new form of transparency to online automated decisions making by providing relevant information to the user in the moment when algorithms are used to automate high stakes eligibility decisions such as in financing, law and employment. OPACITY offers a tool to query these autonomous decisions, thereby empowering users to hold these services to account.

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Design

    Programme

    MA Global Innovation Design, 2018

  • BIO

    As an award-winning designer and business-savvy graduate, I find inspiration in identifying opportunity and combining vision, ingenuity and tenacity to turn simple or complex ideas into reality. With a background in Industrial Design and business, I enjoy being a generalist, working on various topics and thriving for opportunities to learn new skills or ways of thinking.

  • Degrees

  • BTech Industrial Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015; BSc (candidate) International Business Administration, Vrije University, 2011
  • Experience

  • Co-Founder, Whitebison, Cape Town, 2015; Co-Founder, Eukoya Labs, Cape Town, 2013
  • Exhibitions

  • Design Indaba, Cape Town, 2015; Design Indaba, Cape Town, 2014
  • Awards

  • Immediate Impact, Lloyds Register Foundation Design Award, 2017; Most Innovative Product of the Year, Design Indaba, 2015; Winner, FESTO Biomimicry Design Challenge, 2014
  • Conferences

  • Publications