Case study
At our second Film Club meeting, an actress who goes by Belgium stood up. For some people, AI tools are not about getting ahead. Not about efficiency. Not about flipping ratios. They're about getting to participate at all. Don't forget that. When the debates get abstract and ideological, remember Belgium.
Belgium keeps the room honest. If the argument only talks about efficiency, it misses the people for whom access is the whole point.
Her story does not erase the harms. It makes the both/and harder and more necessary: critique the systems, and still notice when the tools let someone speak who was being pushed out of the frame.
Practice the move
Refuse to Outsource
Name the parts of being human that stay yours even when a tool expands what you can make.
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