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Where Do You Stand on AI Ethics?

Think of a technology or AI tool that directly affects your work — you will map your real position across four tensions throughout these steps.

Name your technology

Write the name of the AI or technology tool you chose and describe in one sentence what it does in your professional context.

Technical vs. ethical priority

When your organisation evaluates this tool, where does the emphasis actually fall? Mark your honest position on the spectrum.

Pure technical performance

Pure ethical consideration

Speed vs. scrutiny

Gabriel argues that organisations cannot afford to wait for problems to appear before examining implications. Where does your organisation actually sit?

Deploy fast, fix problems later

Scrutinise deeply before any deployment

Individual vs. systemic concern

When ethical questions about this tool arise, does your organisation focus on individual cases or on broader systemic effects? Mark where you think it should sit, then mark where it actually sits.

Individual case-by-case review

Systemic policy and governance

Your personal confidence

Look back at spectrums 2, 3, and 4 — do your marks reflect genuine organisational policy, or are they aspirational? Mark how confident you are that your organisation's actual practice matches where you placed it.

Practice lags far behind stated values

Practice matches stated values exactly

Read the pattern

Look at your four marks together. Write two sentences: what single word describes the dominant orientation you see, and what does that pattern suggest about the gap — if any — between where your organisation is and where it needs to be?

The honest question

Gabriel says the gap between the technical answer and the moral answer is where his work begins. Write the ONE question about your chosen technology that your organisation has not yet seriously asked — and commit to why it matters.

Why that word?

Discuss Share your unanswered question from step 7 with a partner — does theirs change what you wrote?

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