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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 04:12:26 JST Adrianna Tan

   I did something exciting this week! I relaunched my company website: https://futureethics.ai

   It says, boldly, that we want to build ethical and sustainable pro-labor businesses that are pro people and the earth. It's scary to put that out in words because I feel like such an optimistic or naive person. But I don't know how else I can be.

   I also started a Mastodon server just for work: @index

   Over there, I will talk more about work, ideas, ethics, provide updates.

   This post should give you an idea of how I'm structuring this: https://futureethics.ai/our-2026-businesses/

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 04:19:02 JST Adrianna Tan

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     my big bet is that the center cannot hold, that the tech industry and corporate orgs today cannot sustain themselves, that talented people and customers don't want to participate in more destruction, but also

     we need to move away from 'green washing'. you can't just b corp your way out of disaster. i think that everything we do has to be intentional.

     to be honest, i don't know how to do most of this, but i am very good at asking for help, and sharing information. so that's what i'm going to do.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 04:25:48 JST Adrianna Tan

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     i know that 'social businesses' haven't been done well. i think my take is that nonprofits have even more vectors for abuse and mission misalignment ;/

     lately, i've met some folks really active in coop and organizing. i will be learning from them and sharing what i learn and examining what to adopt.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 04:31:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     if your take is 'why .ai? ew? how is that pro labor and people?'

     https://futureethics.ai/our-2026-businesses/

     "I am building an AI security research company that asks, 'what's next after 'responsible AI'? What's next for the rest of the world?‘ We address a systemic risk in global AI: the failure of AI systems when they encounter non-Western languages, cultures, and contexts they were not designed for. While most AI safety testing focuses on narrow use cases and passing automated benchmarks, we have built the expertise and networks to evaluate AI security across the full spectrum of human contexts. We run evals, write tests, build benchmarks, and lead reviews in all things AI, languages, rest of the world."

     - Address and publish about systemic bias and discrimination in high stakes AI (employment, healthcare, legal, financial) before they harm individuals. Provide data so that civil society, companies and governments can act.

     - Provide the critical transparency and audit trails that protect human workers and decision-makers from arbitrary automation failures.

     - Carry out long term research into environmental impact of AI and data centers.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 04:37:07 JST Adrianna Tan

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     a friend was asking me: ai evals and safety and food media?? you must be the only person pursuing this combo of work!

     to which i was like, i am driven by the same underlying goal. to make sure that under-represented people are amplified. somehow, in both these areas, i feel uniquely qualified to do something about it. ;)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 04:39:15 JST Adrianna Tan

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     unlike venture funded businesses, we will succeed not when we sell out for huge $$$$ or when we hire tons of people i think we succeed when we manage to demonstrate that infusing ethics and morals into our work are things that can pay a better than living work for whatever no of people we end up working with. and provide a template for others to do the same.

     i don't think it makes sense that we have to choose between money and morals, although i have been told i am hopelessly naive. maybe i am.

     the difference between the pithy things we believed in in the early 2000s like 'don't be evil' and what we need to do today is: we need to articulate what that means.

     'we will be deliberate wrenches in war machines'

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 04:47:30 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Ethan Marcotte

     @beep i would love to work with you!

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     Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 04:47:46 JST Ethan Marcotte

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     @skinnylatte I’m so excited about all of this, Adrianna — for you, of course, but also for all of us 💜

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     Jesse Karmani (jesseplusplus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 07:31:50 JST Jesse Karmani

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     @skinnylatte this sounds amazing, and I can’t wait to hear more and learn along-side you! I’m curious how you feel your ethical fit model can work with outside funding (your stage 3 for the companies you work with), but I might just be extra cynical about there being any ethical investors out there 😂

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 07:31:50 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Jesse Karmani

     @jesseplusplus you’re right!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 07:55:35 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Guillotine Jones, Flâneur

     @Guillotine_Jones @index thanks!!

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     Guillotine Jones, Flâneur (guillotine_jones@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 07:55:37 JST Guillotine Jones, Flâneur

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     @skinnylatte @index
     You go, Adrianna!