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Week 3: GOVERNANCE AND DEPLOYMENT ETHICS - June 5 · 3:00–4:30 PM PT

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Responsible AI Professional Certification: Week 3 / Cohort 1

Systems Thinking + Capitalism and Power

AI doesn't exist in a vacuum. Every deployment decision is a political and economic act. This week shifts from individual ethics to structural analysis: who benefits, who bears the cost, and what responsibilities come with having the power to deploy.

Pre-reading

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Cory Doctorow on Reverse Centaurs - On acceleration and the human attention gap. Essential framing for this week's systems thinking lens. Full interview is 51 minutes, but link below is to a specific (relevant) topic.

Cory Doctorow on Ensh*tification, The AI Bubble, Reverse Centaurs, and The Post-American Internet

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Policy Design in the AI Era - Sarah Downey, 2025 - AI policy is a change leadership problem disguised as a technology problem. This article introduces the governance gap, the two-layer policy structure, and why most AI policies fail before they're implemented. Essential pre-reading for the AI and Change: Governance section.

AI Policy Design for Nonprofits: A Guide by Sarah Downey Consulting

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How Long Are Privacy Policies? - A data visualization on the impossible length of policy documents - and what it means for meaningful consent and the human-in-the-loop fallacy.

A Policy Length Analysis for 70 Digital Services - The Biggest Lie on the Internet

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Foundation Model Transparency Index - December 2025 - Stanford CRFM - The current state of transparency across major foundation model providers. Useful framing for the deployment ethics discussion.

Foundation Model Transparency Index

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How much energy does Google’s AI use? - Google Cloud - The current state of transparency across major foundation model providers. Useful framing for the deployment ethics discussion.

Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference | Google Cloud Blog

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