Ethics, life and AI
Marcela Distefano, Jose Antonio Morales, Jess, The Creator, Dr Sam Illingworth, AI Governance Lead ⚡, Raghav MehraA field manual for high‑impact AI: governance checklists, stop‑rules, and procurement-ready controls
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The Due Process Stack: 3 Artifacts Every Public-Sector AI System Needs
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The System didn’t Fail. It did Exactly What it was Asked to Do.
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Red-Teaming in the Public Sector: Three Real Stories Nobody Tests
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Red-Teaming AI: the Stress Test Every Developer Should Know
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Design Thinking built the Feature. Systems Thinking would Have Asked if it Should Exist
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In a previous post, we introduced Systems Thinking as the missing user manual for AI, the discipline that asks not just “does this work?” but “what does this change across the whole system?” Read it here:
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Accountant, data scientist and book freak. I like talking about ethics in tech and in life.
I help independent entrepreneurs transform psychological fear into freedom. Through 15 years of building communities and running Fear & Fail events across 5 countries, I support people on their fearless path.
Who am I? The Best Writer Alive \ud83d\udca5 I’m Jessica—a nurse practitioner turned trader and multi-publication Substack builder helping creators launch correctly from day one.
Professor & poet in Edinburgh. Creator of the Slow AI Curriculum for Critical AI Literacy. Author of GenAI in Higher Education (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Stanford certified engineering leader and MBA turned AI Governance Leader. Coffee lover, plant parent and AI enthusiast.
I make sense of AI and tech for the people doing the work — PMs, investors, operators, and builders. Ex-quant trader. I care about what works in production, not what sounds good in a pitch deck.
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