Pluriversal

AI built on mutual aid.

The future doesn’t come from abandoning the past.
It comes from staying true to our origins while imagining what is possible. AyniAI is about daring to imagine a different AI reality — and building it.

The thesis

AI ethics diagnoses your use case. AI flourishing guides the way forward. Ancestral Intelligence gives you the how.

You can find the gaps and assess the guardrails for safety
— but you still need a vision.
That is where flourishing comes in.

The starting point

The Quechua principle
of ayni.

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Ayni is the ancient Quechua principle of sacred reciprocity: what you give to the world, the world returns.

It is not a Western ethics framework retrofitted onto AI. It is a different way of understanding obligation, relationship, and consequence — one of many. That pluriversal understanding is the foundation of everything I build.

A different starting point From fear → to intention

AI built with intention does not need to choose between progress and people.

The dominant conversation around AI is driven by fear.
Fear of regulation, of liability, of getting it wrong.
That fear produces defensive systems.

When AI is built with genuine intention, grounded in ethics, shaped by diverse perspectives, and accountable to the people it affects, it delivers more for everyone.

No.Built on fearBuilt with intention
01 Overcautious More innovation
02 Under-imagined More trust
03 And still harmful Less harm to people and to the planet
There is a better starting point

Intention is not a constraint on what AI can do. It is the condition for doing it well.

The framework · Diagnose, envision, give it direction 010203
01 AI ethics · the diagnosis Ethics diagnoses the harm I map where harm is most likely, by use case and/or line of business: whose rights are exposed, where the gaps are, and which guardrails and mitigations are non-negotiable. Explore the method →
02 AI flourishing · the vision Flourishing sets the vision Where do you want to go? Beyond avoiding harm, together we work through flourishing: how it can change your product, your strategy and the vision you build toward. Explore flourishing →
03 Ancestrality · the direction Ancestrality gives the direction Ancestral intelligence shows a direction that embeds care into the product itself — meeting compliance and reducing harm by design, not by review at the end. Explore the practice →
Experience & affiliations
Standards bodies, universities, civil society, and industry — the same principle in every room.
Practice
SAP's first AI ethicist, globally
Standards
IEEE · UNESCO · Globethics contributor
Recognition
100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™
Published
Springer chapter, cited in policy
SAP
IEEE
UNESCO
Goethe-Institut
transmediale
Technical University of Munich
LMU München
HTW Berlin
Kristiania University
WAIE+ Network
IEAI — Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence
Globethics

You're not here to tick boxes.
Neither am I.

I work with organisations ready to move from AI ethics as declaration to AI ethics as practice — from strategic advisory to hands-on operationalisation.

Let's talk →
Berlin, Germany — available globally