How one concern becomes another
75 · Any group that has walked 01–06
The point of the map. A broken tool becomes a human harm. A human harm becomes a question of power. Plan the next talk from a bridge, not from a silo.
Opening question
Name a concern we have already sat with. What else does it refuse to stay separate from?
To hold together
- If we only fix the model, whose harm remains?
- If we only write a policy, what failure in the tool will the policy not see?
- What is the smallest set of families our next month of conversation should hold together?
A practice
On the Flow view, tap one family. Read the bridges it lights. Choose two connected families. That pair is the outline of your next gathering.
Concerns to name in the room
Predictive policing
Predictive-policing feedback is a cycle in which past police activity helps direct future patrols, which then generate more records from the same places.
Triage algorithm bias
Triage algorithm bias occurs when an automated urgency score gives some groups lower priority than their medical needs justify.
AI in child welfare
AI risk scoring in child welfare can harm families if incomplete records or misleading predictions are treated as a direct measure of a child's safety.
Principles to sit beside the facts
Reading reality
See symptoms, patterns, structures, and the mental models that hold them.
Unity
Many perspectives, one shared picture.
Learning together
Success is small victories, not applause.
Read or watch beforehand
One piece is enough. Save the rest for later.
Timnit Gebru
Founder · Distributed AI Research Institute
Named the labour, environmental, and stereotyping costs of large language models, and built an independent lab after leaving a major lab.
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Kimberly White / Getty Images for TechCrunch · CC BY 2.0. Displayed in a circular crop; the photo retains its stated license.
Virginia Eubanks
Writer and teacher
Automating Inequality follows ranking systems in welfare, homelessness, and child protection. Read this before a civic group talks about 'efficiency.'
Photo credit
Sebastiaan ter Burg from Utrecht, The Netherlands · CC BY 2.0. Displayed in a circular crop; the photo retains its stated license.