Theme:

Systems Thinking

Pre-reading:

Doctorow Centaurs excerpt, acceleration and human attention gap.

Content:

• Deployment Ethics: When is AI ready? When should it never be used?
• Labor & Work: Displacement, augmentation, worker surveillance
• Environmental Impact: The carbon cost of computation
• AI literacy and equal access

Example case study: Lionel's power/water consumption study? Or maybe something from

Exercise:

Artifact:

Deployment Checklist — Evaluate multi-dimensional suitibility of different AI products

https://crfm.stanford.edu/fmti/December-2025/index.html