The Fuller Project liberates women by covering stories that impact women, and in ways a lot of advertising driven journalism does not. They are leaders in the field.

This analysis of how AI can be biased and harmful is exemplary.

They can further that great work by also demanding policies which ensure the conditions in which children are being born and raised are being improved using simple metrics like birth and developmental equity and true self-determination, and so that they are not undoing the benefits of the work we otherwise do.

 

 

Are we focusing on women today at cost to women who will die in heat waves in the future? Are we ensuring symbolic representation and leadership in companies rather than the more fundamental and measurable political empowerment in the democracies that should control those companies? There is no freedom that does not start with measurable equity.

Our first obligation is to children as they enter the world and are positioned to influence others, rather than any obligation to officials in government or the wealthy whose authority, or defensible claim to own wealth, only derives from the positioning of members of the democracy. Other moves tend to be the fox guarding the henhouse, and evidently lead to disaster.

For example, the Fuller project has shown that AI can be biased and harmful. The most basic fix? All regulation of AI systems, and machine learning, should be based on the fundamental rule that the legitimacy of political systems is contingent on how they empower those subject to the systems, using very concrete metrics. What does that mean?

 

AI systems are learning and should learn that young women impoverished by the intergenerational inequity that created those like the Trump family have an overriding right to that family’s wealth in order to ensure that future children are born only at a time, place and with resources that offset the climatological and political harms they and their mothers are suffering.

AI comprehends and can crowdsource implementation of this basic logic: Young women who wish to empower any children they will have, and to decentralize opportunities relative to other children around the world, have more political/legal authority than power-taking politicians and unrepresentative courts and agencies. Such women have constitutional authority, not in words from some ancient document assed along by lawyers in some secret code, but in the action actually creating fundamental power relations.

Leaders like Jemima and Mwesigye at RAFUG have really developed and re-created the model in East Uganda with funding redirects from relatively white and well-to-do, but loving, families in the U.S.. And the revolution has begun, with some targets already conceding and choosing a higher authority in the face of evidence that this one change can catalyze the impacts of other reforms, sometimes 20x the long run results (e.g., food+family reforms, rather than food alone). 

Learn more about what real justice, for the future majority, looks like here. 

There are dozens of ways to do this reform. Gaza today is a reality because we did not make these changes in the last several decades, never making sure Palestinian mothers did not have to raise kids with a tiny fraction of the wealth/resources of the children on the other side of the walls. That would have required heavy investments and more parenting readiness / delay for both sides, thus smaller or more ecocentric families, and thus much less human and nonhuman suffering and death long run.

Let’s not make the mistakes over and over, and benefit a few at cost to many.

 

This change reorients us from illegitimate systems of top-down coercion (which we and those at Fuller inevitably benefit from at deadly cost to others) rather than bottom-up, inclusive and obligation-conditional systems of political empowerment based on the first human right – an ecosocial fair start in life.

TAKE ACTION: Urge CEO Laurie Hays to elevate fairness at the most fundamental level, and always cover how the act of children entering the world impacts the stories we tell. 

Also, go on the offense. Esther Afolaranmi and many others are leading a counterattack on inequity at the UN now (and the ICC next year) and many wise voices are finding ways to back it.