What — AI ethics tries to achieve

Understand
what’s in it
for your group

What’s in it for my organization?

The Aligned Groups Framework (AGF) helps your whole team understand and communicate about why and how you are integrating AI.

It jump-starts a dynamic process that leads directly to ethical governance and ethical management of AI integrations.

The Aligned Groups Framework Venn — Cultivate Human Groups Ethically

Work clockwise · start with the orange steps

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Step 1 · Plan
How can we plan to use AI to help us meet needs that we haven’t been able to meet before?

What existing planning rhythms give us a chance to reflect on our current AI usage, and create realistic goals for future states?

How can we prioritize AI integration in our existing planning processes?

Do we need to introduce new planning processes to enable the kind of flexible, ongoing work that AI integration requires?

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Step 2 · Cultivate Agency
How can we use AI, as an organization, in ways that give people better choices that they understand?

How does AI relate to human agency in our organization, in terms of both threats and opportunities?

Who are our stakeholders, broadly understood? How should we engage them about our AI use in ways that respect and expand their agency?

Who on our team is a champion for ethical and effective AI integration? How can we empower them to do more?

Cooperate: You are now poised for a more impactful kind of planning, based on deepening ethical alignment among the people in your group. This is essential so that you can keep aligning new, more powerful AI systems with your group.
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Step 3 · Communicate
AI slop is easy to make. But how can we ensure that we communicate in ways that are factual and ethical, and which authentically communicate our experiences?

What should our AI use disclosure policies be internally and externally? How can we make it easy to track and disclose AI use?

How can we use systems to make more time for authentic communication within our team, and with customers, clients and other stakeholders?

How can we coordinate expert review to ensure that AI-generated and AI-assisted outputs are factual and ethical?

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Step 4 · Gain Insight
When our team communicates holistically, we can transform isolated data points into something truly informative.

When we can gather input and other data together, look at it as a coherent whole, insight becomes possible.

But to gain insight, we have to deliberately spend time reflecting on the information, especially if the reports are automated and excellent.

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Step 5 · Reflect on Whole Systems
When will we all sit down together and consider dynamic aspects of our AI integration, like workflows, as well as static aspects, like our organizational structure, and how they all fit together?

This makes insight possible for the purpose of organizing not just our AI integration, but the relationship between the AI-integrated and the non-integrated aspects of our organization.

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Step 6 · Deepen Alignment
What does it feel like to work with AI in our organization?

How does it feel to plan and develop goals together?

How does it feel to solve problems, once you know goals?

How do the repetitive and laborious parts feel?

Some answers may surprise you.

Close the Integration Gap

So that your organization can make effective, ethical AI integration real.

You can integrate AI ethically using Ethical Governance and Management (EGM).

EGM doesn’t remake organizations. Like relatively recent reinforcements to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, it supports and builds resilience while maintaining your distinctive character.

EGM is not a complete system on its own. It is a framework for coordinating your current and future ethics, governance and management systems for the purpose of ethical AI integration.

The AGF is designed to help you close the integration gap by integrating AI ethics, governance and management into your existing policies, procedures, and practices.

It is designed to make ethical AI integration engaging, fruitful, and normal — instead of just being something you feel guilty for not doing.

Ethical Governance and Management tower diagram
Governance
Maintains
Strategic innovation initiatives
Centers of excellence
Project/program management offices
Controls
Software stacks
Policies and procedures
Controlled vocabularies
Management
Maintains
Management systems
Ethical culture
Management frameworks and vocabularies
Manages
Change · Operations
Projects · Coaching
Training · Workflows
Discipline, etc.
Ethics
Maintains
Ethics frameworks and vocabularies
AI Ethics Charters
AI Ethics Systems
Warrants
Design and/or selection of ethical governance and ethical management resources
Training resources
Ongoing Ethics Research
“Warrants” means “provides good reasons for”
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