What it does to people
75–90 · Any group. This is the gathering youth should not skip.
The people side: fairness, privacy, manipulation, companionship, health, work, school, culture. This is where most community talks actually live.
Opening question
Where has a system already ranked, nudged, or accompanied someone we love?
To hold together
- What is the difference between a tool that helps a person and a tool that replaces a relationship?
- Who is most likely to be scored without being asked?
- What would dignity require of a classroom, a clinic, or a feed?
A practice
Pick two families that feel far apart, for example Health and Labour. Read one concern from each. Ask what they share that the names do not.
Concerns to name in the room
AI companions and adolescent development
AI companions may affect adolescent development when they become a major setting for learning about trust, boundaries and relationships.
Triage algorithm bias
Triage algorithm bias occurs when an automated urgency score gives some groups lower priority than their medical needs justify.
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.
Grading-AI errors and bias
Automated-grading error occurs when AI assigns an inaccurate or unfair score, including when language patterns influence the result more than the skill being assessed.
Principles to sit beside the facts
Dignity
Every person is a protagonist, not a data point.
Listening
Listen to understand, rather than listen to speak.
Justice
Who is heard, who is harmed, and who decides.
Meaningful conversation
Conversation builds the language of a new reality.
Read or watch beforehand
One piece is enough. Save the rest for later.
Joy Buolamwini
Founder · Algorithmic Justice League
Showed that commercial face analysis failed more often on darker-skinned women, and built a public practice of auditing systems that claim to see us.
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Tristan Harris
Co-founder · Center for Humane Technology
Named how attention systems shape minds at scale, then turned the same lens on generative models in The AI Dilemma.
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Sherry Turkle
Professor · MIT
Reclaiming Conversation is the book for groups, especially with youth, who want to talk about companionship, attention, and what a machine cannot hold.
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Eric Topol
Cardiologist and writer · Scripps Research
Follows medical AI as a clinician who still holds the patient in view. Useful for groups in health systems who need neither hype nor refusal.
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