AI Age Virtues

13 virtues to practice

1. 1
   Discernment — Check an automated answer against evidence before allowing its fluency to persuade you.
2. 2
   Humility — Admit when you cannot judge whether a generated result is sound.
3. 3
   Integrity — Keep your ethical standards when automation makes a questionable action easy.
4. 4
   Temperance — Pause before delegating a decision whose personal meaning deserves your attention.
5. 5
   Candor — Disclose material assistance when letting others assume sole authorship would mislead them.
6. 6
   Patience — Resist the demand for an instant answer when the question needs thought.
7. 7
   Compassion — Notice when a person needs your presence rather than an efficient substitute.
8. 8
   Fairness — Apply the same standard when an automated recommendation favors someone you identify with and when it favors someone you dislike.
9. 9
   Attentiveness — Give an inconvenient detail in a generated answer due notice instead of skimming past it.
10. 10
    Intellectual Honesty — Revise your belief when a checked result contradicts the automated answer you preferred.
11. 11
    Self-Respect — Decline a simulated judgment of your worth that asks you to trade dignity for approval.
12. 12
    Open-Mindedness — Consider a human objection fairly even when a system presents its answer with greater confidence.
13. 13
    Exactitude — Preserve the precise scope of a source when turning an automated summary into your own statement.

A rhythm for practice

The proposed program follows thirteen virtues, one week each: thirteen weeks for one cycle and fifty-two for four. Begin with a small public or invented example. Return to what the assistance helped you do and what judgment remained yours.

What thoughtful assistance makes possible

You and a friend are making a small puppet theatre. A tool has supplied three possible endings, a tidy scene list and a plan for the stage. You choose an ending worth performing, leave room for the puppeteer’s hand, and try the scene aloud together. The suggestions have become a play through choices no list could make on your behalf.

A generated answer can give you something to work with. Its next use still involves a choice: whether to believe a claim, adopt an interpretation, share a draft, or let a person speak before the next suggestion arrives.

The object is not to prove that you need no help. It is to use help in a way that develops understanding, keeps representations honest and preserves the relationships and purposes the work was meant to serve.

Discernment asks what supports the answer. Attentiveness notices the detail it would be easy to miss. Intellectual Honesty lets contrary evidence change the belief. Exactitude keeps that evidence’s limits intact when you tell someone else what you learned.

Humility and Open-Mindedness make room for learning from beyond the first account. Integrity and Candor connect the result with standards and an honest explanation of its making. Temperance and Patience govern the appeal of instant completion. Compassion and Self-Respect keep people’s dignity within the purpose of the assistance.

Ways to take part

Study and learn

Use permitted assistance to make a first attempt, then ask what you understand and explain what help contributed.

Work and represent

Turn a draft, total or summary into something whose claims, limits and assistance you can explain to colleagues.

Choose with people

Consider structured recommendations alongside the relevant circumstances and objections of people affected by the decision.

Keep personal judgment

Enjoy encouragement and company without letting approval set a degrading price on your dignity.

Free attention

Let help with routine parts make room for conversation, making something together or a personally meaningful contribution.

Choices that need judgment

Fluency and evidence

An elegant account can begin an inquiry without settling it.

Convenience and participation

A shortcut can remove needless effort or remove the part you wanted to take in the task.

Polish and faithful scope

A clear summary should make a claim accessible without making it larger.

Choose a starting point

Use public, invented or non-sensitive material for these practices. Do not upload another person’s private information or treat a character exercise as a reason to rely on generated specialist advice. Choose help and limits suited to your circumstances; no particular product or level of technical skill is required.

These pages offer ideas for reflection and character practice, not professional advice. Choose practices suited to your circumstances and abilities. You may adapt, pause, or skip an exercise; putting yourself or someone else at risk is not proof of virtue.

Reading and sources

Continue your practice

The named program follows this thirteen-virtue sequence. My Virtues lets you create a personal collection from eligible virtues. An optional practice program is available.

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