Field Notes on Ethical AI
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Turkey Tasks and Tech: Discovering AI’s Culinary Power over the Holidays
From communications to small details to grocery shopping, there’s plenty of ways for AI to help you with everyday tasks.
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Should You Trust an AI Doctor? Why Chatbots Still Need Humans
There’s a temptation to turn everything into KPIs and metrics, but what we can measure is never exactly what we care…
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Can You Hear the Dolphin’s AI? How 5G is Helping Save a Species
What does harmony look like when humans mediate it through machines?
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Delegating to AI: A Small Experiment in Letting Go
Wanting to learn about and make the world better comes from our experience, but the work to do those things doesn’t…
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Pushing our Buttons: AI’s Default to Truth
When working with AI, it’s helpful to think of it as an intern in its first week. In the capacity of…
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RAG Time: How Mercy Corps Is Using AI in the Field
The real opportunity lies in balancing automation with human judgment, so that technology not only accelerates work, but also deepens impact.
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Wanted: Nonprofit Staff Who Can Wrangle AI (and Still Care About People)
Hiring in AI’s next phase means sifting for moral judgement, not just tech-happy tool use.
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AI Found Thousands of Hidden Rivers! Why It Matters for Africa’s Future
Productive and enjoyable to actually get to read about positive ways that my bread and butter (AI) exists in the world.
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Google’s “Guided Learning” has entered the building.
…Children are naturally curious and want to ask more questions and to take ownership of knowledge.