Whose job is it to ensure that a new product you’re building or a new tool you plan to use provides the benefits you need while avoiding harmful impact?
The Consequence Scanning Toolkit suggests a multi-stakeholder approach. In a 45-minute workshop, you’ll bring together people with different perspectives to identify both the intended and unintended consequences of new technologies. Once you’ve done that, you’ll have a list of things you need to take action on - to amplify the good stuff and either mitigate or monitor the bad.
At Mission Drive, we found it a great way to explore how we might use generative AI. Consequence scanning suggested that we need be transparent when we use AI. And to implement subject matter expert checks to ensure we keep increasing the quality of our work and that any AI-generated fibs don’t slip through the net and into copy we create.
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