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Anu Sridharan's avatar

Hi Jenna- thank you so much for this lovely article. I have one question- sometimes I feel like we need good alternatives for consumers to choose from. Right now, to your point, I think we have a list of bad options.

Do you think the answer is actually funding alternative models we can work from? Is it…consumers being more vocal about these things?

What can we, as individuals, do about it? (Asking for a friend :D)

I’m also asking because I used to work at an AI company and…it’s just a whole other world. I think AI is one of the first technologies that started consumer first, and maybe we as consumers then need to demand alternatives also.

Jenna Nicholas's avatar

Thanks so much for the question and reflections here! I definitely think a lot of the answer is in funding alternative models. How about you? What do you think?

Anu Sridharan's avatar

I think so too. And I guess there's new ones being funded like Humans&, which talk about assisting humans (not replacing them) but I don't know about ethics. I guess we'll see.

It's really tricky. But hopefully if we keep having these conversations we'll get somewhere? Fingers crossed :D

Jenna Nicholas's avatar

Yes, I definitely think more conversations and being in community around these themes is incredibly important

Ridvan Idara's avatar

Thank you Jenna for this thought provoking article. I have been trying to articulate the need for encoding ethics into AI as part of the infrastructure as technology evolves at such a fast pace and making sure that we in include the voices of people who have been historically excluded at the table. This article captures my thoughts. I look forward to reading your book.