{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Embodying change: Transforming power, culture and well-being for people in aid","title":"65. Reclaiming humanity in the age of AI with Silva Ferretti","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5216,"description":"AI is already reshaping humanitarian work, evaluation, and decision-making, whether we’re ready or not.\nThe real question isn’t whether to use AI, but how.\nIn this episode of Embodying Change, host Melissa Pitotti is joined by evaluator and systems thinker Silva Ferretti for a wide-ranging, deeply human conversation about what’s at stake as AI accelerates across the humanitarian sector.\nSilva challenges the idea that evaluation is about compliance and box-ticking, and reframes it as a space for learning, truth-telling, and transformation. She explains why “best practices” often fail in complex contexts, how power quietly shapes what gets summarized and what gets ignored, and why AI is not neutral (especially when used uncritically).\nYou’ll also hear how Silva uses AI in participatory ways: to conduct interviews, surface patterns, validate findings with communities, and even co-create a song that captures her thinking about AI ethics and fluency.\nThis is not a tools episode. It’s a conversation about principles, power, trust, and reclaiming humanity with AI as both the risk and the opportunity.\nAnd if you stay until the very end, you’ll hear the full song Silva co-created with AI, bringing the conversation into a different register entirely.\nToday’s guest: Silva Ferretti\nSilva Ferretti is a humanitarian evaluator with a background in architecture and planning, known for her work on learning-oriented, complexity-aware evaluation.\nRather than treating evaluation as a compliance exercise, Silva focuses on sensemaking, power, relationships, and context, and on creating space for people to talk honestly about what isn’t working, not just what looks good on paper.\nShe is also an early and thoughtful adopter of AI in evaluation, experimenting with its use for pattern recognition, rapid synthesis, participatory validation, and creative communication, while remaining deeply attentive to ethics, bias and human agency.\nSilva regularly shares reflections and provocations on...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uFSdFlFuEElscNdIvJdBMv5_S5x37dqgu89IcXLzSs4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzk3NTMvMTcwOTEx/MzY2Ni1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}