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AI Framework for an Equitable World NTEN

A much-needed AI framework for a more equitable world

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Since losing my job in a round of budget-cutting layoffs at MomsRising (where I spent 10 years building web sites, IT systems, security protocols, and trainings) I have been seeking a new opportunity to help a progressive organization or campaign to more effectively use technology in support of grassroots organizing for political change. One of the things I have found in every CTO and IT Director position I see is that everyone wants to use AI now, but not everyone is sure why or how.

I am so grateful to have received a scholarship to enroll in classes to earn NTEN’s AI for Nonprofits Professional Certificate. I have been following the discussion around AI safety and ethics for many years, including as MomsRising’s Senior Director of Internal Technology and Security. This certificate program is giving me more practical tools for how to create and guide AI applications that can serve movement organizing while still staying true to our progressive values like justice, equality, and mutual care.

This week, I took a class created by Amy Sample Ward and Tristan Penn about the AI Framework for an Equitable World that was created in a community process led by NTEN in 2023. I greatly appreciate this approach which shows how assessment and impact are essential, on-going elements of any AI intervention. Below is a diagram of the framework. This is exactly the type of useful resource that I and any nonprofit IT leader can use to develop tools and processes that are both more effective and less harmful. I look forward to putting this into use soon!

AI Framework for an Equitable World. A diagram with 3 connected loops. Assessment: Input, outcomes, accountability Impact: Individual, organization, system Intervention: Design, develop, deploy

Learn more and download the full report at https://www.nten.org/posts/publication/artificial-intelligence-framework-for-an-equitable-world

Screenshot of a YouTube video which shows Ronald Reagan wearing a plaid shirt and reading from a paper into two microphones

Republicans reap ‘The Liar’s Dividend’ thanks to AI and corporate journalism

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Parker Molloy has a great new essay on Trump’s repeated subversion of reality, seen recently in his claim that Ronald Reagan loved tariffs when in fact he hated them as accurately portrayed in this Canadian ad with unadulterated clips of him speaking. This reminded me of the often-quoted Hannah Arendt, who I really need to read much more of.

“If the public loses faith in what they hear and see and truth becomes a matter of opinion, then power flows to those whose opinions are most prominent — empowering authorities along the way.”
– The Liar’s Dividend: Trump, AI, and the Death of Shared Reality by Parker Molloy, Oct 28, 2025

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
– The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, 1951

screenshot from native-land.ca showing many overlapping territiries

Land acknowledgement

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For years I have relied on the maps at native-land.ca to help me understand the history of the land I am on. Today I discovered it has an AI tool called Kōrero that you can converse with to create a personalized land acknowledgement statement.

Below is the statement it created with my input. I love it!

With gratitude, I reflect on my lifelong connection to this land—home to the Lumbee, Skaruhreh/Tuscarora, Cheraw, Mánu: Yį Įsuwą (Catawba), Saponi, Occaneechi, Eno, and Shakori peoples, whose care for these waters and forests sustains us still. As someone who walks the banks of the Eno, I commit to honoring their legacy by protecting this river, supporting my neighbors, and tending to the land as a humble participant in its story. Let my actions—from mutual aid to mindful stewardship—be a small continuation of the care that has shaped this place for millennia.