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My Personal A.I. Policy

  1. I will use A.I. to help people who need help.
  2. I will teach other people how to use A.I. in ways that help them while not hurting others.
  3. If you can't talk about how A.I. can both help AND hurt, or have a more nuanced conversation than just "A.I. is BAD" or "A.I. is GREAT", I'm not here for the conversation. Like any powerful tool, there are a lot of ways it can hurt people, but how can it help people? Let's talk about it.
  4. I will learn from the tool's capabilities, interrogate its output, and use the results as a guide or roadmap in my own processes. I will not blindly publish any machine learning model's output without care. If I can't be bothered to Give a crap, why should anybody else?
  5. I will not use A.I. to automate away my own creativity, humanity, understanding, decisions, research, and process. These are things I love doing and experiencing myself. So often, the process or journey or experience along the way is the point. It's what makes a human life worth living.
  6. Whatever I make with A.I.'s help (writing, design, code, etc.) has to carry my voice. A.I. can find sources and sketch options, but the choices that make a thing mine are mine: what it is, what it's called, how it looks and reads, what it says. I don't put my name on anything I haven't shaped into something I'd stand behind. Tools may change, but taste is hard to fake.

See also A.I. Good vs. Bad for more on the reasons behind this personal policy.

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