Field Notes on Ethical AI
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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.
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Hallucinating or Elucidating? AI’s Strange, Wrong, Hyperreal Honesty
Without knowledge of how to optimize answers for ‘truth,’ they’re modeling what humans do–tell stories, hedge, prevaricate, lie, do bad math,…
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From Remix to Action: Two Ways to Read AI
…These tools have the potential to lower the cost of producing cultural artifacts, thereby increasing humans’ power to create things or…
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Will AI Flatten or Elevate Human Learning?
“While cognitive offloading with AI reduces people’s higher thinking abilities, thoughtful integration of ‘extraheric AI’—which nudges, questions, and challenges users—can substantially…