{"id":920,"date":"2026-03-29T21:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:44:23","slug":"the-ethics-of-staying-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-ethics-of-staying-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics of Staying in the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI doesn&#8217;t invent bias, it codifies it. When you walk away from the tools you don&#8217;t agree with, you leave them to be influenced by the people you disagree with most. Abstention isn&#8217;t neutrality. It&#8217;s choosing to be invisible in the algorithms.<\/p>\n\n<p>(Read, <a href=\"\/realstuff\/essays\/ethics_of_staying_in_the_room\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Room Where It Gets Built &#8212; Essay #3: The Ethics of Staying in the Room<\/a>)<br>&nbsp;<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/realstuff\/essays\/ethics_of_staying_in_the_room\/hero.png\" width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI doesn&#8217;t invent bias, it codifies it. When you walk away from the tools you don&#8217;t agree with, you leave them to be influenced by the people you disagree with most. Abstention isn&#8217;t neutrality. It&#8217;s choosing to be invisible in the algorithms. (Read, The Room Where It Gets Built &#8212; Essay #3: The Ethics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[196,223],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin","tag-ai","tag-ai-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}