Everyday Ethical AI

What's next in 2026: AI Everywhere (pre-announcement)

SheWritesAI collaborative book #1 coming soon: 25 chapters by women and nonbinary authors from 15 countries with fresh viewpoints on AI, from history to…

Jan 19 • Karen Smiley

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December 2025

PLANETcollab ep. 2 w/ Karen Smiley

Everyday AI isn’t just for tech giants. Everyday AI has to be about ethics, agency, and practical choices for families, small businesses, and…

Published on PLANETcollab • Dec 31, 2025

A hat, a haircut, a tattoo: Experimenting with AI image generator Blunge.ai

Creating images for my upcoming book chapter in the Entrepreneur's Manifesto using generative AI tool Blunge.ai, and evaluating its ethics

Dec 30, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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AI Ethics and Personal Boundaries

Part 8 of the “Beyond the Hype” series

Published on Rebecca Mbaya • Dec 27, 2025

Data privacy and buying (or gifting) a smart watch

A look at affordable fitness watches and the data privacy practices of their manufacturers, which one I ended up choosing, and why

Dec 23, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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📢 My interviews by and with the FindingSustainia co-founders

Just released: My new interview on the Meyer & Meyer podcast, and an "AI, Software, & Wetware" interview with one of the two co-founders of…

Dec 12, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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AI tales of 4 creative workers in art, video, music, and writing

4 anecdotes reported by the BBC on the effects of AI on creative people’s jobs: a 'furry artist', a vidoegrapher, a musician, and a copywriter.

Dec 8, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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Why "share everything" isn't good advice for kids (or adults)

In our AI-infused, data-scraping world, the old kindergarten maxim to "Share everything" is no longer sound advice. Kids of all ages need to learn to…

Dec 5, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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November 2025

Everyday Ethical AI and Data Privacy with "The Data Diva", Debbie Reynolds

My interview for The Data Diva Talks Privacy podcast is out!

Nov 24, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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Digital Labor Day, part 2

A personal story and more thoughts on how the human intelligence of data workers is disrespected

Nov 3, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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October 2025

Boring, high-paying data labeling work, anyone?

A short rant on a “10 high-paying remote jobs that don’t need college degrees” video that promoted data labeling work as both high-paying and boring

Oct 27, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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A tale of two LLMs: How ChatGPT and Copilot gaslit us in completely different ways

Is there really an "Open Substack mirror"? Some annoying and odd discoveries Lakshmi and I made while analyzing data from "AI, Software, & Wetware…

Oct 15, 2025 • Karen Smiley

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