Ethics Directive

The Minutes

The Minutes

The day they said no.

This is where you write your own account of a time you raised an ethical objection at work, in your own words, and see it matched against the four patterns from Five Objections. Nothing you type here is collected, stored, or published by Ethics Directive: it stays with you, not with us. The record of what you actually said is what protects your judgement. Having it in your own words, tested against the four patterns, is worth something even if nobody else ever reads it.

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Describe what was said. We’ll tell you which move the room made.

Type roughly what happened when you raised it, or what was said back. We’ll match it against the four patterns from Five Objections.

This stays right here, just for you.

This only goes to the address you give above, so you have your own record of it. It never reaches Ethics Directive, and nothing is published.

Sent. That copy is yours, and only yours.

What you type here stays informal, one story at a time, and never feeds any published number. For the aggregate picture, built from gap report answers instead, once there is enough of it, see State of the AI Ethicist.

What a real minute keeps
01 · The decisionThe moment it landed: the feature, the finding, the deadline, and the room. Enough to feel the weight, never enough to identify anyone who did not agree to be named.
02 · The objectionWhat they raised, how they raised it, and to whom. The exact move, so the next person has a script rather than a feeling.
03 · What happenedWhether it worked. Often it did not. The failures are kept as carefully as the wins, because that is where the competence actually lives.

Not ready to type yours in? Start here.

Five Objections is five short scenarios, one a morning, each stopping at the moment of decision. It is the low-stakes version of the same question, and on the sixth day it asks the one that feeds this series: what was yours?

The gap report · free · private

Where do you actually stand?

Sixteen questions, six minutes. You rate yourself on each competence area, from “not yet” to “I could evidence this to an assessor”. We hand back a profile, your strongest ground, and the gaps worth closing first. Nothing is stored unless you ask us to send it.