For Designers & Engineers
Build what comes next
If you design, code, or shape technology, this path reveals how easy it is to become complicit—and how to resist. Experience algorithmic bias you didn't intend, manipulation you engineered, and exclusion baked into your assumptions. Study real AI failures, then design alternatives.
Scroll down to begin your journey. Each experience builds on the last.
Why start here: You need to feel complicity before you can resist it. Toggle on features. Watch metrics soar. Realize you've built Instagram. This is your wake-up call.
The Bias Machine
Can AI be objective if humans are not?
Train an AI to approve mortgages. Watch it learn digital redlining—discriminating by zip code as a proxy for race, even when demographics are hidden. Based on real cases: Berkeley study found $250-500M/year in discriminatory charges, HUD settlements, and Chicago Tribune exposés showing 2.5x denial rates for Black applicants.
The Energy Bill
Who really pays for your free AI?
Track your daily AI usage and calculate the energy cost. Then discover who really pays: Mesa, Arizona (Meta data centers, 905M gallons water, extreme drought). West Des Moines, Iowa (Microsoft, 70M gallons, city's largest water user). Northern Virginia (AWS, 102 data centers, 70% of world's internet). Small towns sacrifice water, energy, and quality of life for your free ChatGPT.
AI Failures Archive
What went wrong?
Browse 15 documented AI failures: Tay chatbot, COMPAS bias, wrongful arrests, Uber fatality, healthcare discrimination, Roomba privacy violations, Instagram harm. Filter by category. Read what happened, who was harmed, and why it matters. These aren't bugs—they're patterns.
Design Counter-Algorithms
What if algorithms served humans?
Design your ideal algorithm with 6 value sliders: Confirmation↔Challenge, Viral↔Quality, Endless↔Finite, Echo Chamber↔Diversity, Outrage↔Calm, Machine↔Human. Then apply your algorithm to real products—Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter/X, Netflix, LinkedIn—and see how each platform would be reimagined. Switch between tabs to compare current vs. reimagined versions. Discover real alternatives: Mastodon, BeReal, RSS, Wikipedia, Substack. Actionable steps: chronological feeds, turn off recommendations, follow fewer but deeper.
Speculative Futures
What world do you want?
Design your AI future (2035). Make 6 policy decisions: training data, surveillance, high-stakes AI, labor, transparency, creative rights. Experience a day in the world you created. See the tradeoffs. Discover there are no perfect answers—only choices.
Write Your AI Bill of Rights
What rights should humans have?
Draft your own AI Bill of Rights like the US Constitution. Select from 10 potential rights (notification, explanation, opt-out, correction, human review, data deletion, non-discrimination, meaningful consent, privacy, compensation). See real scenarios showing how each right changes lives: job applications, loans, medical diagnosis, welfare, sentencing. Based on real events: Amazon hiring tool, Apple Card bias, COMPAS, Dutch welfare scandal, Clearview AI. Sign and share your bill.
Your Turn
You've completed 9 experiences in "For Designers & Engineers".
What's missing? What did you learn that we didn't cover? What invisible system needs to be made visible?
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