The right to self-interpretation must not be handed to machines
This chapter protects people’s right to see, correct, contextualize and challenge how systems or AI interpret their identity.
A philosophy of people, work and technology
When a system tells your story before you speak
A fluent AI summary can turn a career break into instability and a collective project into an individual claim. The problem is often not fabricated data but the story assembled from it.
A fluent AI summary can turn a career break into instability and a collective project into an individual claim
Data records events, not their meaning
Meaning requires context, relationships and purpose. Forwork must separate user-provided facts, verified evidence, system inference and personal interpretation.
Meaning requires context, relationships and purpose
The right to see how the system understands you
People must be able to see labels, summaries, sources, missing data and confidence levels before those interpretations affect opportunities.
People must be able to see labels, summaries, sources, missing data and confidence levels before those interpretations affect opportunities
The right to correct facts and interpretations
Correction must include disputed inferences, added evidence and changing self-understanding—not only dates and spelling.
Correction must include disputed inferences, added evidence and changing self-understanding—not only dates and spelling
The right to add context
Forms cannot anticipate every life. People need space to explain care work, informal learning, transitions and contributions without conventional titles.
Forms cannot anticipate every life
AI must not own the ending
AI may suggest patterns and missing evidence, but its conclusions must remain conditional, sourced and contestable.
AI may suggest patterns and missing evidence, but its conclusions must remain conditional, sourced and contestable
Interpretive agency must shape the product
Forwork needs an AI interpretation panel, version history, access logs, revocation, clear labels and links back to original evidence.
Forwork needs an AI interpretation panel, version history, access logs, revocation, clear labels and links back to original evidence
No one owns the final explanation of a person
Identity should emerge from dialogue among self-narration, evidence, verification and response. No platform, organization or algorithm gets the final word.
Identity should emerge from dialogue among self-narration, evidence, verification and response