Field Notes on Ethical AI
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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
Some of that work can be delegated to those who don’t share the vision, and this is where AI can shine.
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Pushing our Buttons: AI’s Default to Truth
In the capacity of scriptwriting, AI would be inexperienced with an uncanny unconsciousness of their resonance with the human experience.
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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
AI models what humans do–tell stories, hedge, prevaricate, lie, do bad math, and sometimes, eventually, suss out the truth.
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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 value.