Structural Power and AI: Who Sets the Rules?

When we talk about AI ethics, we are really talking about power: who has it, how it is exercised, and what accountability exists when it is exercised poorly. AI concentrates decision-making power in systems and the people who build them. Ethics is the discipline of...

AI-Assisted Insider Threats: Amplifying Bad Actors

AI misuse in organizational settings is increasing in both frequency and sophistication. The same capabilities that make generative AI valuable for productivity make it valuable for deception, fabrication, and circumvention of controls. Most organizational controls...

Deepfakes in the Boardroom: AI-Generated Fraud Is Here

Most organizational controls were designed for a world where creating convincing fakes required skill and effort. AI has democratized fabrication. An employee with no special expertise can now produce convincing false documents, synthetic communications, or fabricated...

Automated Harassment: When AI Makes Abuse Scalable

AI misuse in organizational settings is increasing in both frequency and sophistication. The same capabilities that make generative AI valuable for productivity make it valuable for deception, fabrication, and circumvention of controls. The detection challenge is...

AI in Education: The Ethics of Automated Assessment

The gap between ethical intention and ethical outcome is bridged by process, not aspiration. Organizations that have ethical AI principles but no ethical AI processes have principles in name only. When we talk about AI ethics, we are really talking about power: who...

She Is How I Scale Without Losing Myself

I want to close this year of development logs with the simplest possible statement of what Tessera is and why she matters. The Problem Over a long enough span, a polymath becomes unscalable by traditional means. The breadth that makes the expertise valuable is the...

The Case Against AI Maximalism: When Not to Deploy

AI ethics is not a constraint on innovation. It is a quality standard for innovation. An AI system that produces biased outcomes, violates privacy, or makes unexplainable decisions is not a good system that happens to be unethical. It is a bad system. The gap between...