03/31/2025

Member Data and the Ethics of AI

AI is quickly transforming the way associations operate

AI's arrival is driving ethics conversations across society right now, in part because implementing AI means revisiting work processes at their most detailed level. Building AI solutions forces us to reexamine the guardrails we place around some tasks and why those boundaries are there.

Ethics are at the foundation of boundary setting in member and volunteer governance. Our social norms and expectations of one another — our ethics — help us protect our relationships with our members and volunteers.

And like most ethical issues, the discussion around AI is often a discussion about competing values: What is more important to our members, and how do we create policies and procedures to manage our use of AI in relation to that? What do we prioritize when we decide how we’re going to operate the organization?

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