I'm going to use the term 'affordance' in what follows, and I know from experience over the years that people misunderstand this term:
In psychology, affordance is what the environment offers the individual. In design, affordance has a narrower meaning; it refers to possible actions that an actor can readily perceive.
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It's very US-centric, but then much of AI discourse is. What I like about this piece from Matt Stoller is that it gets to the heart of what's going on here: corruption.
We no longer live in a land where people are “innocent until proven guilty,” the actual rule of law as practiced is “guilty until proven wealthy.” The Supreme Court even gave Wall Street an exemption from the Constitution in securing bankers their own independent regulator, even though no one else gets a regulator free from Presidential demands. Oh, and let’s not even talk about laws that purport to constrain illegal wars or war crimes.
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For the past few months I've been following Nīkau, "a global platform, information and operations security consultancy in service to NGOs, impact-driven organisations and grassroots movements". In addition to security auditing, etc. they also run courses, such as Cloudbreak which is an intensive 6-hour session "[walking] participants through the process of building up and tightly securing powerful cloud infrastructure" to provide "alternatives to Google Docs & Drive, Zoom & more."
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