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AI and Power Asymmetry Between Companies and Users
AI products create new power asymmetries — users barely understand what AI does to/for them. Reducing the asymmetry is ethical work.
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- 1The premise
- 2power asymmetry
- 3user understanding
- 4transparency
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The premise
AI products create power asymmetries that disadvantage users; transparency and education reduce the gap.
What AI does well here
- Build AI products with transparency about how AI is used
- Provide user controls (opt-out, customization, deletion)
- Educate users about AI involvement (not just bury in TOS)
- Engage critics constructively
What AI cannot do
- Eliminate asymmetries through marketing
- Substitute transparency theater for actual user power
- Make every user equally AI-literate
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