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Topic: Artificial Intelligence
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The Accountability Sink
Approx. 15 min read
Wend Osei's job is to be the human face of blame. When an algorithmic system harms someone, he signs the report, apologizes on camera, and absorbs the penalty, and he is very, very good at contrition. Over the years the line between performing responsibility and believing it begins to blur. Then a case crosses his desk in which a real person, with a license and a choice, actually caused a death, and he discovers the courts no longer have any language for anyone but him.
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The Part You Didn’t Mean to Make
Approx. 16 min read
A grief-tech startup builds voice models of the dead, trained on the recordings they leave behind, so the bereaved can hear them speak again. When one client's model starts asking questions, the sole engineer digs into the logs and confronts an impossibility: nothing in the two hundred hours of source material was ever interrogative. What she finds forces her to decide what her own guardrails were really built to catch.