Topic / Focus

This unit on domains opens by establishing how the first institution already works, before AI enters at all: its values, authority structures, labor, and existing inequalities. Understanding the institution on its own terms comes before understanding what AI changes.

Format: Full class · Lesson template: Domain A: Understand the System

Guiding Questions

• What values and forms of authority already structure this institution?
• Whose labor keeps the institution running, and how is it currently distributed?
• What inequalities already exist here, independent of any AI system?

In This Class

In this meeting, we will:

• use domain-relevant Examples in the Wild and STS concepts to establish institutional context
• map values, authority, labor, and existing inequalities in the domain
• select 2-3 deployment patterns to watch for once AI enters