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The Crumple Zone

Kanav Jain

Exploring how technology, AI, and institutions can be designed to behave humanely and embed accountability in high-stakes systems like healthcare and finance

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Uninhabitable Acts

Comparisons between humans and automated systems usually turn on intelligence or processing speed. They leave out a constraint that matters when people act: you have to live with what the action makes of you.

A system acts without having t...

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You Were Free to Choose

A handbook gives an institution a calm answer to a person it has failed. When a worker breaks under a regime of "flexible" overwork, or a patient reaches the end of an insurance appeal and finds a new wall of paperwork, the response from th...

7 months ago
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​Incidence Is Not Suffering

A system can make fewer mistakes and still leave people worse off when it makes one. Counting how often harm starts tells you nothing about how long a person stays stuck in it.

Incidence is new cases over a period. It is one measure, not a...

7 months ago
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Modern Adulthood

Modern life rewards a "maturity" that has very little to do with being right.

It rewards being able to notice something is wrong and keep things moving anyway: registering harm without forcing repair, accepting delay without demanding a de...

8 months ago
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"We Condemn the Excesses"

Power condemns the excesses once it has already decided the outcome: keep the tools, contain the moment, move the fight somewhere the public will not follow.

The phrase closes accountability instead of opening it.

"Excess" files violence...

9 months ago
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