Ask
Say who you are and what is in front of you. You will get questions to take to a visit, a huddle, a pitch, or a kitchen table.
A talk goes wrong when it becomes a debate to win. It goes well when people try to understand the same thing.
For I want to start a conversation
Opening
What do you already use that an adult in this room does not understand well enough to ask a good question about?
When is a chatbot a tool, and when is it being asked to be a friend?
How do you tell a true thing from a fluent thing?
What would a fair classroom tool actually do?
What should adults stop doing that they think is protection?
Same questions, denser rooms. Go when you are ready — not as a test of seriousness.
The incident record
Responsible AI Collaborative
A living collection of real-world AI harms, submitted and edited in public. MIT's tracker reads this record. The database is the source; the tracker is a way of seeing it.
You have seen a harm and want it on the public ledger, or you want to search what has already been filed.
How / when / why
MIT AI Risk Initiative
Three questions of every risk: which entity (a person, the system, or unclear); whether it was intentional; and whether it arose before deployment or after people were already using it.
A conversation is stuck on 'AI is dangerous' and needs a sentence instead of a mood.