Trusted vs. Untrusted Agency Amplifiers

Detail from an illustration by Edward R. Loper from the National Gallery of Art . Like everyone else in tech (and increasingly outside of it), I’ve spent a lot of the last few years thinking about AI and how it can be used in my work. More and more, the framework I’ve been using to evaluate AI tools—or any tools for that matter—can be boiled down into the terms: trusted agency amplifiers (TAA) vs.…